A. Johnson
A. Johnson
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Just because Common Cause ... doesn't like our conclusions, that doesn't mean our conclusions are illegitimate. I think Common Cause is trying to raise an issue because it's trying to raise money.
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Sooner or later they're going to have to realize that more of us want baiting than don't. It isn't going away until they pass it. Baiting is already a common practice that they can't stop, so why keep making people be outlaws and make it legal so the rest of us can join in.
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Common sense alone says energy is not going to be the leader.
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It is common for controversists, in the heat of disputation, to add one position to another till they reach the extremities of knowledge, where truth and falsehood lose their distinction
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If one party resolves to demand what the other resolves to refuse, the dispute can be determined only by arbitration; and between powers who have no common superior, there is no other arbitrator than the sword
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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The operative word in Public Service Commission is 'public.' And, for most of our members, they have a pretty strong impression the PSC is too attendant to the needs of the utility companies and not common citizens. People are concerned about how to make ends meet.
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It's where common sense and nonsense meet head-up, ... Barbershops are the black man's country club. You can say what you want, no matter how crazy it is.
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The biggest thing is that we've worked so hard together. It's important to be able to work with other people toward a common goal.
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It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.
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A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.
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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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We disclose our funding, Common Cause does not. So it's rather ironic that we would be attacked on that basis. But at the end of the day, just because Common Cause doesn't agree with the way we seek grant funding, that doesn't make advocacy illegitimate. Nor does it make theirs legitimate, their attack legitimate.
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There may be more than just the common concept that the reason a person gets fat is because they eat too many calories.