"Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road."
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"Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers."
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"Progressives should recognize common morality with religion."
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"No one is exempt from the call to find common ground."
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"The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon."
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"There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems."
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"I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground."
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"All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it."
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"From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence."
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"My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears."
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"As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client."
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"As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race."
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"Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves."
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"Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy."
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"It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories."
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"Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,."
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"We have much more in common with other people than we have apart."
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"No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth."
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"an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property."
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"To do something very common, in my own way."
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