#common

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. ↗

— William James

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I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#corruptions #nothing #politics #understood #word

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

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There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#characters #circle #common #families #family

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. ↗

— George Santayana

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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