Their Common Quotes

50 Their Common quotes by 46 unique authors

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common… — Francis Galton
And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds… — Lucretius
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of… — Elihu Root
It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but… — Marianne Williamson
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different… — Charles Simmons
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command… — Max Lerner
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we… — Barbara Jordan
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare… — Barack Obama
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean… — Paracelsus
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative… — Steven Pinker
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or… — Herbert Read
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a… — Italo Calvino
The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their… — Cormac McCarthy
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them… — Robert A. Heinlein
If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you… — Jean Toomer
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. — Elizabeth Blackwell
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they… — John Dryden
The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now. — Tom Stoppard
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. — Mo Ibrahim
Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But… — Leon Bourgeois
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein
I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the… — George Bernard Shaw

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