"This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs."
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"The common factor of all religions is nonviolence."
"The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong."
"At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation."
"In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay."
"Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open."
"Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense."
"There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of."
"What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?"
"Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie."
"Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator."
"It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie."
"It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity."
"Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous."
"Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind."
"The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself."
"You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good."
"If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?"
"Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody."
"Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft"