"One thing Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug."
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"Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment."
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"The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small."
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"It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel."
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"Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up."
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"One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same."
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"Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common center, forcing them all round, but those most violently which are nearest, and that it languishes in some sort and grows weaker at the most distant, because of the remoteness and the attenuation of the virtue."
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"Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure."
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"I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold."
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"All of them had a restlessness in common."
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"Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art."
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"Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'"
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"Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life."
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"Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use."
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"Keep in view the common good of the people for all time."
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"For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I."
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"Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common."
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"The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost."
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"love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel."
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"Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after."
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