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common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common snooping policy
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. David R. Ellis
common-sense humanity sound-judgment
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
common information investors legs quite support
Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time. John Segrich
common draught fair flavor genius grand mediocrity neutrality spoils weak
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.
democracy speech committees
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. Alan Bullock
democracy public-opinion input
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it]. Alan Blinder
democracy
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Al Smith
democracy knows ifs
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. David McCullough
democracy humans corporate
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. David Korten
democracy way communism
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
democracy unions leon
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! C. Wright Mills
democracy boards cynic
Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards. Carl Icahn
democracy soil wealth
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. Ai Weiwei
dignity great treat
We want to treat them with great dignity and respect,
dignity goal greater greatest hope represent serve victory
We want to represent Tulane everywhere; our goal is to give hope to everyone, ... If we do that, and do it with dignity and serve the greater purpose, it'd be the greatest victory any of us had ever been a part of. Rick Dickson
dignity worthy-opponents worthy
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect. Beth Moore
dignity reason i-can
The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.
dignity offensive attraction
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions. Baltasar Gracian
dignity next ourselves reflected sitting traveling turn
Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth. Sharon Stone
dignity ends uncomfortable
That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity. Ricky Gervais
dignity sometimes wonder
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity. Bob Dylan
dignity certain
There is a certain dignity to being French. Brigitte Bardot
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
pride sickness breaking-down
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
pride men becoming
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
pride keepers
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
pride self attractive
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
pride may charity
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
pride common-sense prudence
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
pride cutting animal
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
pride self vanity
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.
pride charity may
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.