"There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good."
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"A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it."
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"Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose."
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"The heresy of heresies was common sense."
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"No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick."
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"In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends."
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"As to whether those who fit the common meaning of the term "intellectual" should act in the manner that [ Edward] Said prescribes, that's another question. Needless to say, I agree with him that they should, and that they commonly do not."
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"The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends."
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"I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."
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"No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation"
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"To make the common marvelous is the test of genius."
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"One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity."
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"Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own."
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"The seeing have the world in common."
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"Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common."
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"What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?"
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"Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds."
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"- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy."
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