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It's good common sense, your grace.'
Mahina shook her head. 'Good sense is far from common, I fear, Tarja. — Jennifer Fallon

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. — George Orwell

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen. — Patrick Carman

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot

TEN [exploding]. Bright! He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English!
ELEVEN [slowly]. He doesn't even speak good English. — Sherman L. Sergel

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good. — Dhani Jones

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

He who must travel happily must travel light. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

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

It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture. — Tanay Pant

Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired. — Gregory David Roberts

if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Good sex and good humour have one important thing in common: good timing — Alan Daniels

I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good? — Lailah Gifty Akita

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. — Pope Benedict XVI

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

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act. — Rob Lowe

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good. — Olympia Snowe

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do. — Frank Spotnitz

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. — Mickey Spillane

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity. — Salvatore J. Cordileone

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

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. — George Santayana

We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good. — Marta Kristen

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' — Jeff Bezos

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life. — Joyce Meyer

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. — Adam Smith

Let every action aim solely at the common good. — Marcus Aurelius

This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit. — George Lakoff

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. — Tryon Edwards

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you. — Plautus

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate. — Vince McMahon

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common. — Philibert Joseph Roux

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense. — Hack Wilson

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. — Aldo Leopold

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow. — Ray Bradbury

a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly. Ursula — Kate Atkinson

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

I'm just a normal guy with some good solid common sense who has zero tolerance for those with zero intelligence. — Adam Carolla

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. — Dorothy Day

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. — Barbara Tuchman

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community. — Thomas Aquinas

Whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person. — Hualing Nieh Engle

I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us. — Bob Casey Jr.

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people. — Common

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. — Joan Crawford

good common heavenly sense to my people, — George MacDonald

He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all. — Betty Smith

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse. — Elizabeth Bear

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good. — Joel Miller

Common sense is a skill to learn, and it is the foundation of all good business. — Ehab Atalla

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc De Clapiers

ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation. — Sherif Girgis

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less. — Marva Collins

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable. — William Wycherley

N OTHING is done in the interest of welfare for the common good where there is money to be made. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Coho or silver salmon are very common and easy to get for a good price. — Tom Douglas

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. — Joel Miller

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good. — Pope Francis

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. — George Eliot

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door. — John Wooden

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven. — Monica Johnson

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. — Jamie Osbourne

And some of us believe in freedom of the individual over the tyranny of the common good. — Kameron Hurley

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. — Howard Zinn

Real reason he'd gone was the one most bad decisions have in common: it had seemed like a good idea at the time. — Stephen King

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. — William Shakespeare

I believe in cooperating for the common good. — Erskine Bowles

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

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

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

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

It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common! — Madeline Zima

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

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency. — K.J. Parker

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others. — Pearl S. Buck

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

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential. — John Wooden

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. — Isabel Allende

Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. - JAMI, BAHARISTAN — Gurcharan Das

There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight. — Charles Haynes

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. — Ernest Hemingway,

I keep praying that this faith we hold in common keeps showing up in the good things we do, and that people recognize Christ in all of it. — Eugene H. Peterson

I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together. — Vladimir Putin

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. — Alexander Fleming

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. — Baruch Spinoza

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

Common sense often makes a good law. — William O. Douglas

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. — Robert Casey

If the end of human law is the promotion of the common good among men, the divine law has for its purpose nothing less than our friendship with God. — Scott Hahn

Good luck is abnormal
bad luck is common — Yarro Rai

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good. — Susan George