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The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
~ Laura Chinchilla
To me, I feel completely, um, utterly normal. I do everything everybody else does.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed.
~ Jeffrey Skoll
Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restriction on free speech in the best interest of the good order of the community and common sense.
~ Denis Napthine
we hunger for the restoration of hope and common sense and purpose.
~ Jann S. Wenner
Simply put: the easiest and most likely explanation, however mundane, is probably correct.
~ Jasper Fforde
I see that martial artists and art gallery owners have a few things in common...We both get to say pretentious stuff that sounds way more insightful than it actually is.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover, learning is noticed only by its differences, and as in algebraic equations, common quantities count for nothing.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Personas de reconocida integridad colocadas en situaciones difíciles, maridos engañados> mujeres seducidas, partos clandestinos, he aquí los asuntos más comunes; y el que más enriquecía la Casa de Expósitos era siempre el más aplaudido.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wise men, if they try to speak their language to the common herd instead of its own, cannot possibly make themselves understood.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nulle société ne peut exister sans échange, nul échange sans mesure commune, et nulle mesure commune sans égalité.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence. The decisions affecting matters of general interest come to by an assembly of men of distinction, but specialists in different walks of life, are not sensibly superior to the decisions that would be adopted by a gathering of imbeciles.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They're so weird and so beautiful, she said. Like you, I said. I meant it as a joke, but Liz nodded. She felt that she was sort of like an emu herself, she said. Maybe that was why she'd had flying dreams ever since she was a little girl -- at heart, she was an emu. She was sure the emus also dreamed of flying. It was another thing they had in common. Both she and the emus wanted to fly -- they just didn't have the wings they wanted.
~ Jeannette Walls
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
~ George Washington
As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.
~ Hillary Clinton
We have to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.
~ Emmanuel Macron
About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It's a powerful way for young people to learn history.
~ Mort Walker
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
~ John Hench
Filipino food is not common when compared to your local Chinese food options.
~ Vincent Rodriguez III
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
~ Christoph Waltz
We live very ordinary lives.
~ Bob Mortimer