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“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.”

“It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.”

Believe States Common Atheism Prejudice Positive Atheism Fearful

Author:Pierre Bayle

“As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.”

Helping Feelings Today Perfect Common Atheism Scientist Foundation Inspired Bounds Refuse Positive Atheism Common Sense Prophet

Author:Luther Burbank

“If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something in common, tremendous attention to detail in their personal lives and associations.”

People Ifs Want Success Common Attention Careers Share Buddhism Succeed Understood Details Winner Association Associates Personal Life Attention To Detail

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.”

“Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences among them are so great and so shocking that any common element that can be extracted is meaningless.... The older apologists for Christianity seem to have been better advised than some modern ones in condemning every religion but one as an impostor, as at bottom some kind of demon worship or at any rate a superstitious figment.”

Source: The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy

“But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.”

People Men Country Whole Able Law Wealth Common Atheism Dangerous Danger Blind Sake Monsters Colour Cheat Assistance Hypocrite Clergy

Book:The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin

“Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.”

People Energy Common Successful Share Increase Manage Enlightened Mysticism Successful People Happy People Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.”

Loses Common Emotion Overcoming Common Sense Mysticism Overcoming Fear Gaining Power Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.”

People Knows Energy Common Know How Buddhism Waste Increase Angry Unhappy Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.”

Men Needs Looks Interest Common Principles Virtue Atheism Objects Morality Members Advantage Species Vices Obvious Theology Common Sense Revelations Injury

Author:Jean Meslier

“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.”

Men Form Religious Common Atheism Doctrine Like Me Terrified Peril Common Man

Book:The World Is My Home: A Memoir

Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir

“There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.”

“If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”

Reason Common Break Atheism Positive Atheism Common Sense Charm Bigotry Fanatics Fanaticism

Author:Anne Royall

“Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.”

Want Moments Common Principles Atheism Identity Positive Atheism Degenerates Common Denominator Demagoguery

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.”

Giving Humans Doe Seems Lasts Purpose Values Courses Loses Common Existence Forever Atheism Evidence Ultimate Function Positive Atheism Purpose Of Life Human Existence

Author:Barbara Smoker

“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean "neither affirming nor denying a belief in God."”

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.”

Used Passion Common Grew Six Grew Up South My Favorite Hip Hop Hips Hops Rapper Pastor My Passion Slang Outkast

Author:Cyhi the Prynce

“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.”

Thinking Should Book Matter Stories School Political Language Common Study Students Source Pure Conflict Structure Shocking Compelled Public School

Author:David Plotz

“Real love is on the inside. It's somebody you have a common ground with, you share the same values, you share the same interests, you share the same humor, you share all those things that are things that will last you the rest of your life.”

Real Lasts Values Interest Love Is Common Share Real Love Rest Of Your Life Common Ground

Author:George Lucas

“I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.”

People Belief Common Havens Let Me Let Me Down Common Experience

Author:Kevin Costner

“There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.”

Order Common Comedy Written Wings Misconception Sketch Comedy

Author:Adam Pally

“Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."”

People Hate White Common Enemy I Hate Common Enemy

Author:Vince Staples

“Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.”

Difficult Simple Common Common Sense

Author:Mike Tyson

“We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.”

People War Age House Religious Common Race Fire Focus Imagine Listening Income Division Divided Positive Things Religious Wars House Divided

Author:Benjamin Carson

“What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.”

Values Speak Common Principles Constitution Common Sense Free Market Speak The Truth Touchstones

Author:Ted Cruz

“A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker.”

Needs Humans States Common Republican Protect Core Innocent Human Life Candidates Hunts Isis Doers Talkers Common Core

Author:Bobby Jindal

“Everybody is different. You're always going to have disagreements with other drivers, unless you're not competitive and you never run good. I deal with everybody differently. Most guys, I have a lot of respect for and I'd like to keep it that way. So I try to communicate with them and find some common ground.”

Way Trying Different Running Guy Deals Common Communicate Drivers Disagreement Common Ground

Author:Matt Kenseth

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

People Firsts Different Kids Able Lasts Names Parent Common Growing Up Growing Generations African American Nigeria

Author:Terry Gross

“Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect.”

Purpose Social Common Equal Distinction Honour Entitled Employers Recognise Unemployed Common Purpose

Author:Adolf Hitler

“May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?”

May Ends Nations Community Common Rights Century Building Duty Higher Recognition Primaries Strife Quarrels Realisation Building Up

Author:Adolf Hitler

“... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.”

People Giving Long Age Strong Difficult Chance Simple Answers Common Weapons Weak Stronger Complexes Expensive Dominant Despotism Claws

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

“Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.”

Play Found Common Taste Music Is Guitar Creeps Common Ground Radiohead Taste In Music

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.”

“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant”

Should Humans Art Made Human Beings Common Talking Exercise Behavior Normal Art Is Universal Caring Significant Memorable Occupation Socializing

Author:Ellen Dissanayake

“...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.”

Humans Dream Action Dark Common Products Perception Common Sense Inevitable Impulsive

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.”

“... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.”

Way Common Best Way Fund Index Funds Active Management

Author:Warren Buffett

“People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.”

People Men World Wells Home Fighting Energy Common Known Leader Principles Teacher Capitalism Importance Engaged Well Known Imperialism Quarrels Herds Dividing Federal Reserve

Author:J. P. Morgan

“We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.”

People Common

Author:Benjamin Carson

“It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.”

“Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.”

Common Our Lives Truth Is Common Sense Reasonable

Book:Teach Yourself Zen

Source: Teach Yourself Zen

“A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.”

Doe Wealth Common Affair Newspapers Accord Adviser

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.”

Ifs Trying Different Use Hands Winning Strong Bits Goal Common Situation Impossible Team Prove Unique Picks Fingers Pursuit Teamwork Pencils Common Goal

Author:Terry Orlick

“No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.”

Trying Matter Whole Facts Common Quality Solitude Negative Ultimate Make Sense Common Denominator Deep Friendship

Author:Feist

“A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.”

Way Looks Feelings Values Strong Common Race Class Eternal Affection Minorities Mutual My Friendship Mutual Respect

Author:Frank Sinatra

“May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!”

People Looks May War Nations Common Stage Conscience Common Sense Awakened Forefathers Aberration

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.”

War Lines Common Campaigns Consideration Strategic

Book:On War

Source: On War

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