The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic,… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
It is a third generation anti-Semitism. First it was religious in nature. Today, the Jewish state is attacked and that is the… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends,… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Golf is not a good walk spoiled. It is becoming a good walk prohibited. Show me the common sense in this and… — Lorne Rubenstein Copy Share Image
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the… — Sean Lemass Copy Share Image
In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I carried on buying paintings, works of art, and Yves Saint Laurent, if I may say so, had a right of inspection.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
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some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children's grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I've had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I've come to loathe them back, as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know -… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Manny Pacquiao always makes a fake move that I know too well. He fakes a charge forward and then looks like he… — Juan Manuel Marquez Copy Share Image
One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life.… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
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