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“I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.”

People Thinking Views Common Modern Point Of View Flattering Common Ground Appreciative Modern Family

Author:Steven Levitan

“The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.”

Long Different Together Nations Parent Common Vision Lifetime Bounds Grandparent Different Peoples

Author:Trent Lott

“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”

Thinking Needs I Can Hard Hands Common Worry Approach Meat Stubborn Plunge Unyielding New Approach

Author:Ben Marcus

“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.”

Ifs Two Important Social Hours Common Worry Media Majors Police Train Social Media Common Sense Stations Bus Closing Riot Train Stations

Author:Louise Mensch

“In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.”

Needs Use Common Shade

Book:Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume

Source: Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume

“It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.”

Want Firsts Character Common Class Comfort All Things Including Satisfied Luxury Latter Urgent First Class

Book:Principles of Economics

Source: Principles of Economics

“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.”

People Trying Kind Seems Lost Common Gone Study Focus One Thing Presses Edges Tabloids Bad Press

Author:Cory Monteith

“Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.”

Common Band Members Female

Author:St. Vincent

“One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.”

Thinking Country Stories Common Music Is Appreciate Hip Hop Hips Hops Not Afraid Favourite Pun Wordplay Favourite Things Punchlines

Author:St. Vincent

“Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.”

Ideas Helping Home Jobs Energy Stars Common Economy Bills China Locals Common Sense Construction Efficiency Manufacturing Boost Energy Efficiency Homeowners Outsourced

Author:Peter Welch

“There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.”

People Giving Motivation Common Progress Harder Tendencies Disagree Attributes Common Ground

Author:Peter Welch

“People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.”

People Stars Common Share Perspective Scientist Movie Star Common Denominator

Author:Nalini Nadkarni

“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.”

“No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.”

People Enough Government Guy Causes Common Behinds Greater Rights Mass Wake Up Genuine Waking Counting Good Guy Changes In Society

Author:James Morcan

“It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.”

Actors Common Perception

Author:Deepika Padukone

“I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.”

People Ideas Common Jokes Notion Hyper

Author:Alexei Sayle

“It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.”

Said Law Given Animal Common Red Female Hot Laws Of Nature Cannibalism Red Hot Horseshoes

Book:Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.”

Way Sex Common Common Sense Cures Damn

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.”

World Together Language Force Interest Powerful Common Teach Materials Benefits Universal Common Interests

Book:The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton

Source: The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton

“One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.”

Way Values Lines Common Judging Fundamentals Housing Ratios Dividends

Author:Janet Yellen

“On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.”

Kind Persons Suffering Evil Jesus Sin Common Healing Compassion Theory Lessons Philosophical Casts Scales Avoiding Healed Theological

Author:Philip Yancey

“There’s no way that you can live an adequate life without many mistakes. In fact, one trick in life is to get so you can handle mistakes. Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke.”

People Way Facts Life Is Common Mistake Tricks Handle Psychological Broke Denial Adequate

Author:Charlie Munger

“Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.”

People Thinking Littles Powerful Common Too Much Danger Huge Computer Tools Common Sense Organized Uncommon

Author:Charlie Munger

“One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.”

Common Enemy Creativity Development Relation Innovation Common Sense Creativity And Innovation

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.”

Men World Enough Problem Evil Common Free Will Charging

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'”

Source: Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!

“The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.”

Thinking Want Kind Guy Fall Common Letting Go Jokes Falling In Love Uncomfortable Wheels Amusing Steering

Author:An Na

“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”

Ifs Men Should Heart Guy Given Common Cases Greater Perception Stress Philosopher Common Sense Tendencies Ideology Righteous Bad Guys Discouraged Worldview Insufficient Greater Good Devalue

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs”

Source: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS

“A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.”

Men Process Common College Ideals Democratic Aspiration Association Selected Fraternity Adherence Democratic Process College Days

Author:Newton D. Baker

“If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.”

People Ifs World Ends Problem Earth Wish Social Common Resources International Heritage Ongoing Social Problems

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.”

Art Process Common Succeed Findings Errors Trials Experiments Something New Innovative Breakthrough Art And Science Trial And Error

Author:Peter M. Brant

“Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.”

Self Whole Problem Able Interest Common Steps Democracy Addresses Self Interest

Author:Eli Pariser

“Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.”

Firsts Christ Community Common Biblical Common Life

Book:True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

Source: True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.”

Thinking Men Faces Courses Imagination Common Vision Like You Mad Vices Insight Invisible Obsession Realms Mask Accurate Herds Precision Marvellous Seers Geometric

Book:Monsieur de Phocas

Source: Monsieur de Phocas

“What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.”

World Looks Common Healing Hundred Everyday Breathing Instant More Time Expecting Time Travel Harmonious Utopian Very Positive Telepathy Positive Future Levitation

Author:David Wilcock

“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Looks Mean Enough Use Care Common Vision Know How Alive Achieve Photography Photograph Worthless If You Care Pictorial

Author:Paul Strand

“The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.”

Way Common Creative Madness Common Sense Destructive

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency”

Knows Persons Book Shows Culture Common Known Knowledge Reader Assuming Newspapers Assumption Remarkable Consistency Identical

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.”

People Made Common Millions Blessed God Love

Book:Zik: a selection from the speeches of Nnamdi Azikiwe

Source: Zik: a selection from the speeches of Nnamdi Azikiwe

“The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.”

America Common Race Destiny Deeper Paradox Division Race In America

Book:Race Matters

Source: Race Matters

“...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.”

Turns Common Kings Appetite

Author:Laurel Lea

“Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.”

Used Common Effort Opinion Democratic Silent Communism Opposition Diverse Dogma Primitive Common Denominator Demagoguery Anti Communism

Author:Eugen Kogon

“I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.”

People Thinking Sometimes Used Strong Easy Voice Ability Common Effects Instruments Core Used To Be These Days Underrated Craftsmanship

Author:Victoria Legrand

“Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.”

Thinking Needs Might Courses Common Argument West Islam Als Mainstream Extremist

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.”

Wells Interest Community Common Television Materials Aim Independent Wide Traditional Range Owners Mainstream Common Interests

Author:Silvio Scaglia

“It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.”

Knows Individual Results Common Destiny Judgment Passionate Common Sense Merit Yield Individual Success

Author:Maynard Webb

“Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.”

Desire Easy Common One Thing Driven Swindlers Easy Money

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Firsts School Common Sun Generations Students High School Awe Heroism Affliction My Generation Sun Also Rises

Book:Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Source: Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

“Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Today Found Common Drug Tests Sticks After Death Arsenic

Author:Michael Baden

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