Common Denominator Quotes

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. — Jimmy Carter
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in… — Murray Rothbard
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The common denominator is that we want to make the world a better place, for women and for everybody, and we do it through sport. — Lyn St. James
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the… — Nick Hornby
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability… — Tennessee Williams
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory ''managed relationships''. It is a question… — Anil Ambani
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people. — John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and… — Greg Giraldo
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure… — Juliette Binoche
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is… — Len Goodman
We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most… — Albert Mohler
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common… — Herbert Marcuse

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