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"Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves."
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"One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff."
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"In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these."
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"Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom."
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"Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent."
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"Common sense is not too common."
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"To err from the right path is common to mankind."
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"Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books."
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"To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things."
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"Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn"
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"I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator."
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"What is common sense isn't common practice."
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"Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest."
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"Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists"
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"I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing."
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"Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence"
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"But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people."
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"Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts."
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"Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others."
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