#common

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. ↗

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

#inspirational #inspirational

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. ↗

— Roger Ascham

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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning. ↗

— Evan Bayh

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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. ↗

— William Bennett

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I believe in cooperating for the common good. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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