Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
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William Blake
Poet, Painter
"A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation."
Barbara Jordan
Politician, Lawyer
"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
Warren Miller
Filmmaker, Writer
"Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon."
George Washington Carver
Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
"Learn to do the common things uncommonly well."
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"I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will."
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"Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond."
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"Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common."
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"The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears."
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"A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies."
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"Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider."
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"I'm not posh or common, I'm in between."
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"It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas)."
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"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
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"Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule."
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"Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive."
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"We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground."
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"Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good."
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"Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain."
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"Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense."
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"Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are."
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"I idolized Superman when I was younger. I thought he and I had a lot in common. He was always going into phonebooths and taking off all his clothes."
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"Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other."
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"Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors."
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"Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God."
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