Quotes: common
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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 genius in homespun.
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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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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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'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
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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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