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Quotes About Common

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
~ Donald Justice
I'm just a guy. There's nothing special about me.
~ Aaron Donald
Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't have heads, although there are some. It's good to have a head because it puts some of the sensory organs - eyes, ears, whiskers or whatever - next to the CPU, the brain.
~ Seth Shostak
The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it's called, and by some estimates, it's the fifth most common specific phobia.
~ Scott Stossel
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
~ Ferdinand de Saussure
If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!
~ Henry David Thoreau
We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.
~ Bernie Sanders
This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man.
~ Ramon Magsaysay
While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.
~ Franklin Pierce
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
~ Bonaventure
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
~ Hafez
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
~ Mark Twain
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
~ Jack Kirby
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
~ Jack Kirby
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
~ Joe Strummer
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
~ Daniel Boone
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
~ Ludwig von Mises
In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
~ Giorgio de Chirico
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
~ Adam Lambert
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
~ Baruch Spinoza
He keeps an axe in his attic." "Everyone does
~ Neal Stephenson
the pole's center was a gleaming lump about the size of a person's head, which any Spacer would recognize as a small nickel-iron asteroid, as common in space as dead leaves were on the reforested surface. But rare down here, even after the Hard Rain.
~ Neal Stephenson