In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns.… — Jeff Myers Copy Share Image
And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important… — Edward B. Rust, Jr Copy Share Image
At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that we made a huge error in satisfying the lowest common denominator of the available human potential in Nigeria… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour,… — John Smith Copy Share Image
When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The… — Sylvia Ostry Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Huge events in life inform you in so many ways that you know about and many other ways that you cannot even… — Jim James Copy Share Image
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they… — Ahmad Rashad Copy Share Image
As more and more people recognize the level of violence involved and the consequences of CTE [chronic traumatic encephelopathy, a degenerative brain… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Talking about improving the culture, I prefer to say "develop" or "evolve" rather than "change". If I walk into a room and… — James Merlino Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith…Power is not to be crossed; one must… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan… — Nas Copy Share Image
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image