"When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business."
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"I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change."
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"The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about."
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"It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common."
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"Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?"
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"At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day."
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"You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent."
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"Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature."
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"She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary."
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"Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister."
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"We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?"
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"[T]he historian and the detective have much in common."
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"Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?"
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"We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be."
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"The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him."
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"There is one mind common to all individual men"
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"When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes."
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"It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote."
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"Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid."
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"The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other."
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