"Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes."
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"Love heightens all senses - except the common."
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"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."
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"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."
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"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."
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"It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding."
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"We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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"The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!"
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"Common sense is not always common practice."
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"Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice."
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"Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination."
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"There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner."
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"It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them."
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"I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive."
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"Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters."
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"If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million."
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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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