Quotes: common
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If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Karl Marx
German economist and statephilospher
1818-1883
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
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Individualsm is a fatal poison. But individuality is the salt of common life.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Walter Lippmann
American writer, reporter, and political commentator
1889-1974
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Saki
British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro
1870-1916
'The man is a common murderer'.
'A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook'.
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