#common

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. ↗

— Terence

#common #common sense #grand #grand thing #sense

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life. ↗

— Carl Andre

#art #artist #attempting #because #common

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs. ↗

— Michael Baden

#around #arsenic #because #common #death

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#argument #common #constructed #creation #demands

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#common #expression #form #freedom #human

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#both #common #concerned #constructed #far

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#common #common cause #day #factory #factory worker

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#belts #commonwealth #going #i #three

Valor is common but great souls are rare. ↗

— Bernard Joseph Saurin

#great #great souls #rare #souls #valor