Commonly Quotes
412 quotes by 283 authors
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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations…
— Huston Smith
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I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion,…
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
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Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.
— Vaclav Havel
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Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before…
— William Styron
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Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a…
— Robert Cailliau
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People can try to eat the correct things, take the correct amount of exercise, worry less and so forth. But in the end fate or…
— Peter Dickens
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General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.
— Michael Marmot
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Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is…
— Henry Adams
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Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of…
— Russell Kirk
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Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
— Cecil Frank Powell
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Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between…
— Edward Hirsch
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The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It…
— David R. Hawkins
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It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on…
— John Woolman
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
— John Henry Newman
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While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
— Bertrand Russell
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PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
— William Hazlitt
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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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