Common Quotes
4888 quotes by 3163 authors
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
— Hannah Arendt
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create…
— Aristotle
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
— Karen Armstrong
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are…
— William Henry Ashley
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
— Saint Augustine
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
— Marcus Aurelius
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to…
— Dan Aykroyd
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common…
— Stephen Baldwin
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
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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
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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
— Joe Barton
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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
— Joe Barton
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are…
— Scott Adams
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