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Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You… — Eckhart Tolle
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if… — Ronald Reagan
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,… — Ha-Joon Chang
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the… — Ludwig von Mises
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows… — Ludwig von Mises
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few.… — Pope Francis
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a… — Milton Friedman
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The… — Edwin Markham
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to… — Anthony of Padua
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest… — Adolf Hitler
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists… — James R Newman
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments...[but] true and… — Pope John XXIII
... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school,… — Alice Hoffman
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder… — Ben Jonson
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though… — John F. Kennedy
A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street... — Jack Kerouac

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