#common

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

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The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ↗

— Ben Okri

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