Quotes with common

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Booker T. Washington We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Washington Carver When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Edith Warton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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  • Ben Shapiro 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Saki 'The man is a common murderer'.
    'A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook'.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Ben Jonson 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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  • Blanche Lincoln A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Walter Bagehot A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bainbridge Colby A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Jordan A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Eliot A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Absence, that common cure of love.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ching Ning Chu Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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