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• It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Rights, Practice

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• For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.

  Eva Herzigova

  Beautiful, Curves, Littles

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• This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

  Omar Sharif

  Wise, Character, Advice

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• To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Justice, Evil

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, People

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• Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

  Plutarch

  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.748, 谷月社

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• Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

  Plutarch

  Men, Law, Land

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.513

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• Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Lynching, Law

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• It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

  Pierre Bayle

  Believe, Atheism, Prejudice

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• As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.

  Luther Burbank

  Perfect, Common Sense, Feelings

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• If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something in common, tremendous attention to detail in their personal lives and associations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

  Jared Diamond

  Air, Bird, Design

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• Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences among them are so great and so shocking that any common element that can be extracted is meaningless.... The older apologists for Christianity seem to have been better advised than some modern ones in condemning every religion but one as an impostor, as at bottom some kind of demon worship or at any rate a superstitious figment.

  John Dewey

  Differences, People, Atheism

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.403, Indiana University Press

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• Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Beautiful, Flower, Orchids

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Successful, People, Energy

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• Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Common Sense, Overcoming, Gaining Power

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• Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Unhappy

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• I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.

  Harriet Martineau

  Religious, Philosophy, Believe

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.101, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.

  Jean Meslier

  Men, Common Sense, Atheism

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• I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

  James A. Michener

  Religious, Men, Atheism

  James A. Michener (2014). “The World Is My Home: A Memoir”, p.283, Dial Press

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

  Robert M. Price

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.117, Wildside Press LLC

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• Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

  Anne Royall

  Common Sense, Atheism, Reason

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• Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Atheism, Identity, Principles

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• When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Color, Broken

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1814, Delphi Classics

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