Common Quotes

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The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert… — Kofi Annan
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not… — George Washington
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Calvin Coolidge
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes,… — Jesse Jackson
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity. — Seneca the Younger
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… — Philip Yancey
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am… — H. L. Mencken
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;… — Samuel Smiles
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything.… — Raymond Chandler
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind. — Thomas Jefferson
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham
The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense. — Winston Churchill
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by… — Jonathan Swift
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is… — Washington Irving
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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