#common

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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If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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Common sense varies among the young, as among the old. ↗

— John Edward Christopher Hill

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Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers. ↗

— John Lawson

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If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo. ↗

— Jared Leto

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I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene. ↗

— Myrna Loy

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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. ↗

— Charles Stuart Calverley

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