#commons

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

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The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. ↗

— Diane Abbott

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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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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