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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Paradoxically, it is the uncommon event that may best demonstrate the common predicament of our race.
— Thomas Ligotti
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
— Richard Livingstone
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
— David Leavitt
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
— Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
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
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 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
The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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
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
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
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[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
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
