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Tag Name "Common" (3628)

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Voltaire
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There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.
Diane Ravitch
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
Evan Esar
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.
Narendra Modi
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In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.
Owen Barfield
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Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
Michael Parenti
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
Jane Austen
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
Mitch Albom
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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
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When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.
Frederick Lenz
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A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
David Bohm
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I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.
Sean William Scott
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
Tariq Ramadan
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
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Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.
Robert Orben
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.
Brian Johnson
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The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.
Thomas Streicher
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What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.
Ruth Benedict
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Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.
Gabriel Iglesias
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
V. S. Naipaul
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I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.
Kurt Vonnegut
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