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• You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

  Lyle Lovett

  People, Old Friends, Whole Life

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Children, Book, Around The World

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• Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Order, Lovely, Together

  "Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People". Book by Amy Sedaris, November 2, 2010.

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Littles, Grind, Poet

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

  Gene Tierney

  Movie, Failure, Six

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Ethos, Community

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• Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Differences, Taste, Titles

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Luxury, Age, Literature

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.104

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• The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.

  Ed McMahon

  Nature, Smart, Successful

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• I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Sight, Soul, Fortune

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• One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

  Deena Metzger

  Self, Effort, Strange

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• As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.

  Diane Dreher

  Wise, Team, Common Vision

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• We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

  Zong Qinghou

  Needs, Rich Poor, Gaps

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• Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.

  William Benton Clulow

  Powerful, Ambition, Reality

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.253

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• I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

  Katharine Susannah Prichard

  Writing, People, Common Sense

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• The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.

  Carson Grant

  Art, Strong, Children

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly between 1150 and 1250, must be shared between the officials of the royal Chancery, who framed new forms, and the royal judges, who either allowed them or quashed them.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Judging, Achievement

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.

  Edward Jenks

  Kings, Law, Land

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.

  Edward Jenks

  Stars, Character, Men

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.

  Bradley Joseph

  Bridges, Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings

  Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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• All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy.

  Donald Tsang

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

  "New Team Takes Charge of HK Affairs". www.chinadaily.com.cn. June 25, 2007.

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• If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Running, Class, White

  "The Arms Control Reporter: A Chronicle of Treaties, Negotiations, Proposals" by Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.), (p. 57), 1982.

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• For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Accomplishment, Understanding, Lifetime

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• The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Christmas, Sweet, Heart

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