Common Quotes

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Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see. — Joel Osteen
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. — Samuel Gompers
Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the… — Unknown Author
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. — Shelley Winters
It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig… — Unknown Author
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage — Thomas Jefferson
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. — Oscar Wilde
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies.… — Clarence Darrow
To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that… — Michael Jackson
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families. — Thomas Jefferson
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have… — John Updike
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. — Mark Twain
It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live. — Eugene V. Debs
Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity.… — Martin Sheen
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's… — Fran Lebowitz
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. — Thomas Browne
A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized… — Napoleon Hill
Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have… — Carl Sagan
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those… — Howard W. Hunter
The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry

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