My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional… — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate. — Vince McMahon Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Self-doubt is common, but when it impedes you from attaining your goals it’s time to take action. This book shows you how… — Lois P Frankel Copy Share Image
A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and… — Mike Zimmer Copy Share Image
Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Theology differs from science in many respects, because of its different subject matter, a personal God who cannot be put to the… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
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