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• Common sense is calculation applied to life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Common Sense, Calculations

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• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

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• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  E. W. Howe

  Common Sense, Literature, Enthusiasm

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• Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

  Raymond Chandler

  Monday, Morning, Mistake

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• The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

  Doris Lessing

  Kissing, People, Secret

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “Under my skin”

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• No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Book, Clothes

  William Carlos Williams (1938). “The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938”, Norfolk, Conn.

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• Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The Only Path to Tommorow". Readers Digest, pp. 88-90, January, 1944.

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• So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect.

  Jared Leto

  People, Serenity, Fame

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• It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Memories

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

  Max Lucado

  Gratitude, Children, Sunset

  Max Lucado (2012). “Six Hours One Friday: Living in the Power of the Cross”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Fate, Giving, Goal

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

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• We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

  Anita Hill

  People, Justice, Pursuit

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• Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

  Richard Rohr

  Firsts, Different, Substitutes

  Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert (2001). “The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.

  Warren Buffett

  Majority, Way, Path

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• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Children, Equality

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• The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

  Cate Blanchett

  Cities, Different, One Thing

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• Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

  Sargent Shriver

  Peace, Powerful, Simple

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• Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vulgarity Is, Inability, Pieces

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• I learned that money can be a lot of things,It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Laughing, Creative

  A statement from Louis C. K., louisck.net. December 13, 2011.

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• Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fashion, Acceptance, Intellectual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

  John Denver

  Earth, Sacred, Ability

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• Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Laziness, Firsts

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• Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

  Todd Gitlin

  Strong, America, May

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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• To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Wine, Water

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403

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