Quotes with common

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  • Amelia Barr But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • George Bancroft By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Matthew Hale Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Campbell Brown Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Common people do not pray; they only beg.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Common sense is calculation applied to life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Giambattista Vico Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Voltaire Common sense is not so common.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Collange Christine Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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