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Quotes About Common

Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.
~ Barack Obama
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.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
~ Lajos Kossuth
Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
~ Hillary Clinton
Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.
~ Mark Heard
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
~ H. G. Wells
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
~ Harlan Ellison
'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'
~ Tommy Cooper
...I suppose clichés wouldn't be clichés if they weren't based on some sort of tediously predictable truth.
~ Lucy Ivison, Lobsters
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
~ Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
The best ideas are common property.
~ Seneca the Younger
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.
~ Brian Tracy
It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.
~ Jane Seymour
Shit is another useful word. Also very common. For example, pleasantly surprised? You say 'No shit?' You think someone tells you tales, you scoff 'You're shitting me.' You find something you like very much, you exclaim 'That's good shit!
~ Jane Yolen
These days, security for your devices is just simple good sense, like putting on your seat belt.
~ Jason Fried
A todo se acostumbra uno, sí, como se dice vulgarmente, y gran verdad vulgar es esa.
~ Javier Marías
the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
~ Edward Gibbon
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
~ Albert Claude
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
~ Albert Einstein
the present domestic conflict and upheaval grows out of the fact that in spite of their common destiny and deeper interests, the people of the United States are being misled by misinformation to insist on exaggerating their ethnic differences
~ Albert Murray
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
~ Aldous Huxley