"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for……" — Plato

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• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of… — Aristotle
• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and… — Karen Armstrong
• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
• These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other… — William Henry Ashley
• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily… — Saint Augustine
• The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
• She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he… — Sri Aurobindo
• Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a… — Dan Aykroyd
• A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
• I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire… — Stephen Baldwin

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