Common Quotes

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How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being,… — Francis Frangipane
I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No… — Kobe Bryant
Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow… — Miguel de Unamuno
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he… — Richard Mitchell
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. — Albert Camus
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that… — Charles Lapworth
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in… — Carl Sagan
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common. — Angela Carter
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim… — Betty Buckley
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. — C.S. Lewis
Education forms the common mind. — Alexander Pope
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. — Giambattista Vico
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt

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