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I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold — Neil Gaiman

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. — Saul Kripke

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson

It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it. — Jan Shipps

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common. — Ted Koppel

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers. — Ken Blanchard

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it. — Neal Stephenson

More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family. — Wes Fesler

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. — J. Oswald Sanders

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator. — Spike Lee

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. — Sam Levenson

Good writing just isn't that common. — Eric Flint

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. — Herman Melville

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Common thieves like Ludlow were simply another London — Deborah J. Swiss

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819 — Pierre-Simon Laplace

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star. — Uday Kiran

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief. — Jim Shaw

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

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham

Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers. — Joe Biden

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man! — Bartholomew Roberts

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth ... and what you tell it. — Ken Blanchard

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common. — Rita Mae Brown

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test. — Andre Maurois

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen. — DeiAmor Verus

If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know — Morrissey

Paradoxically, it is the uncommon event that may best demonstrate the common predicament of our race. — Thomas Ligotti

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. — Mo Ibrahim

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone

I appreciate this moment in time ... ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes — Common

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt

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

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. — Samuel Johnson

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

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good. — Jacqueline Winspear

One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. — Nikolai Gogol

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other. — Rick Warren

Look inside yourself and recognize that change starts with you. It starts with me. It starts with all of us. — Jared Bush

Contrary to common assumption, many of the wealthiest Americans aren't worried about the weakening economy at all. They are actually excited about it. — Jamie Johnson

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. — Isaac Asimov

Our similarities bring us to a common ground;
Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other. — Tom Robbins

articles of agreement which were to bind these friends in a common partnership, whereby it was understood — George Randolph Chester

Historically speaking, just about everything we know to be 'absolute' will eventually change due to 'new findings'. — Gary Hopkins

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. — Mark Rothko

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is. — Jason Jennings

In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. — Juliet Castle

Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness ... — Michael Jackson

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common. — Douglas Coupland

Common Core's become a one-size-fits-all program that simply doesn't make sense for our state," Jindal said at a news conference. — Anonymous

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins. — Jimmy Carter

Why can't any common fuck be king? — David Vann

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality. — Olivier Theyskens

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister. — Ursula K. Le Guin

ACEs happen everywhere, in every community. But studies have shown that ACEs are far more common in my corner of the demographic world. A — J.D. Vance

There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love - letting go can feel scary. — Sharon Salzberg

The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention. — Nakia R. Laushaul

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common. — Gloria Swanson

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Men and women have been taught so much about each other that they don't use their common sense et al! — Saurabh Sharma

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves. — Kate Thompson

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. — R.D. Laing

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes. — Joseph Priestley

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference. — Fred Reed

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good. — John Lancaster Spalding

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

The most common user action on a Web site is to flee. — Edward Tufte

Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end. — Israelmore Ayivor

I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics — Common

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. — Tim Berners-Lee

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. — Hosea Ballou

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

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable. — Richelle Mead

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. — Christopher Paolini

Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored — Tushar Raheja

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. — Heath Ledger

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. — James Anthony Froude

Sisters share the scent and smells ... the feel of a common childhood. — Pam Brown

Instead of complaining about problems in your stomach, mind what goes into your stomach to cause the problems in your stomach. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority. — Timothy Snyder

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

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. — Ralph Davis

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs. — Karl Marx

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. — Samuel Johnson

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints. — Emily Yoffe

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that. — Duane Chapman

Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination. — Ruth Benedict

And though I've always believed she and I shared many things in common. I did not know how deeply I could feel it.
It's killing me. — Tahereh Mafi

The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. — Alcoholics Anonymous