Quotes about common
common taxes
We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax. Otto Schily
common-sense common knows
Common sense is the best sense I know of. Lord Chesterfield
common-sense perfect feelings
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
common surprised
You'd be surprised how common it is to underestimate how much you're really eating.
common crazy happen lots opponent
You can't read too much into the common opponent thing though. Lots of crazy things happen at state.
common council drafted expressed goal meeting position reach security text
The goal of the meeting is to reach a common position that will be expressed in a text of a 'presidential statement' of the U.N. Security Council drafted by the participants.
common diversity gift increase innovative interest moore recruiting retention school student testament university
The gift is a testament to the common interest of the Moore School of Business, the university and Wachovia to increase student diversity through innovative recruiting and retention programs.
common count dynamic economic europeans face prospect share stark
The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline. Jose Manuel Barroso
common fathers fear founding impulse lead might played rational subvert worried
The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly. David Harsanyi
common breaking-down barriers
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground. Edward Brooke
common-sense laughing people
You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense. Tyler Perry
common consideration share
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration. Pliny the Elder
common-sense world want
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense. Rene Magritte
common-sense psychology ordinary
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded. Thomas Nagel
common-sense common
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us. Thomas Paine
common-sense prejudice sound-judgment
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley
common-sense funeral police
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
common-sense made theory
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else? Thomas Sowell
common utopia envisioning
I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not. Roseanne Barr
common-sense church care
I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right from the start! They call God he instead of she and all three would like to burn me at the stake for saying that!
common-sense house citizens
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive. Robert Silverberg
common-humanity cities differences
That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things... Rob Bell
common one-liner
The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times. Richard Rohr
common-sense superstitions epithet
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll
common expected mutual
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. Samuel Johnson
common cases company
The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever. Sam Altman
common states interest
Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest. Roy Barnes
common-humanity giving understanding
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Robert Penn Warren
common-sense community leader
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary. Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader's vision. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves. Werner Erhard
common-sense pistols use
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense Samuel Fuller
common-sense people needs
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises. Sally Ride
common-sense upset world
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world. Vincent Bugliosi
common-sense way life-is
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.