Common Quotes

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I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that… — Barack Obama
Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least… — Barack Obama
I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun...I also believe that every new handgun sale… — Hillary Clinton
The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. — John Vance Cheney
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator… — H. L. Mencken
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. — Howard G. Hendricks
I find a lot of people say, "Oh organic and local's expensive and I just don't have time." And I'm like, well how much TV… — Ellen Page
Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences… — John F. Kennedy
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting… — Bob Brown
World Government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes, it will appeal to patriotism in its truest sense,in its only sense,… — Peter Ustinov
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed… — Pope John XXIII
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that… — Werner Erhard
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and… — Thomas Browne
This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils… — Alexander Hamilton
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and… — Thomas Paine
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C.S. Lewis

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