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Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place. — Daniel Kemmis

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common. — Baltasar Gracian

Home meant a sanctuary, as common and taken for granted as the sun rising in the morning. — G.P. Ching

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. — Christopher Lasch

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,. — Sam Brownback

(Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you're an introvert. — Susan Cain

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul. — Alexander Pope

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. — Herman Kahn

Passivity is really a crappy substitute for manhood. But it's as common as facial hair on a hipster, or salmon-breath on a grizzly bear. — Josh Hatcher

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good. — James Hunter

You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways. — Jon Krakauer

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it. — Wallace D. Wattles

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel ... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone. — Laozi

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly. — Allen Lacy

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin

Science... internet... and women have one in common all end up as biatch.... So it's very bitchy, when they don't stop talking. — Deyth Banger

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. — Fred Thompson

Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art. — Charles Williams

Common sense used to be a great trait for one to have, and hence the name, common it was plentiful. Today's it's as rare as the Dodo bird. — M.A. Bookout

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. — Christopher Lasch

And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin. — Ally Carter

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave. — William Hazlitt

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. — P. J. O'Rourke

fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you "really" are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome. — Megan McArdle

Unfortunately it's an incontrovertible fact that sound common sense flies out of the window as soon as love comes in through the door. — Kerstin Gier

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry Kissinger

I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all. — Tim Berners-Lee

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us. — Russell M. Nelson

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common. — Israel Zangwill

I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element. — Shakira

Curiosity is often mistaken as Love,
Since they both have the common elements of
Interest and Passion — Drishti Bablani

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. — Roger L'Estrange

For the door to the house had many bolts, locks, bars, and fasteners, as is common in the dwellings of misers. — Michael Crichton

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations. — Joe Barton

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power. — Peter Horton

Fuckin' A ... hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation. — J.R. Ward

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals. — Harold Washington

Fiction means the common things as seen by the uncommon people. Fairy tales mean the uncommon things as seen by the common people. — G.K. Chesterton

Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it. — Leigh Bardugo

As noted, naming a book after someone significant was a common way of honoring that person and reflecting his views. — Reza Aslan

A man is only as common as his dreams. — Harvey Smith

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well. — Francois Rabelais

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song. — Russell Sherman

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us. — Sargent Shriver

Such names as German Mastiff, German Boarhound, English Dogge, Ulmer Dogge and Deutsche Dogge were common in countries around the world. — S. William Haas

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. — Karl Jaspers

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions. — John Harsanyi

As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men. — Mary Ann Shaffer

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago. — Eugenie Clark

Moreover, no one feels grateful to anyone for those benefits of freedom that all share in common, at least so long as they enjoy them. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The boundary between good and evil are clearer for more common folks but gets blurred more and more as people get more power over their fellows. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food. — T.K. Naliaka

It is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all. — Desiderius Erasmus

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side. — Charles Francis Richter

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. — Fredrik Bajer

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. — Antisthenes

Diana has only one birthday in a year. It isn't as if birthdays were common things, Marilla. — L.M. Montgomery

Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals. — Susan Scott

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events. — Gunnar Myrdal

I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. — Gaby Hoffmann

Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold — Kathryn Schulz

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. — Ingmar Bergman

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist. — Common

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos. — Edward Young

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans. — Hank Johnson

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. — Aristotle.

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life. — Common

The world as it was, is, or will be, is beyond common sense, beyond natural understanding: it must be taught. — Masood Ashraf Raja

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it. — Edie Falco

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice, — Illmaculate

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life. — Michael Bassey Johnson

History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends — Leo Tolstoy

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange. — Ludwig Von Mises

Akrasia [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France. — John Searle

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations. — Oswald Chambers

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy. — Vitali Klitschko

Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. Every major world religion has this rule in common and a God they should love. — Darrell Mowat

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy. — Alexander Hamilton

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth — Paul Johnson

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise. — Don Herold

For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well. — Pearl Zhu

Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force. — Victor Villasenor

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common? — Donald Justice

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along. — Jane Pauley

Welcome to the estrogen vortex, dude, where mindfucks are the norm and understanding them is as common as a fucking unicorn in your front yard. — K. Bromberg

Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order. — Common

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality. — Emma Goldman

common problem people have is discerning when a dream or vision is to be taken symbolically (as a parable) and when it is to be taken literally. As — Praying Medic

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common. — Bryant McGill

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. — Dwight D. Eisenhower