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Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.”

Men Common Cities Fortune Graves Empires Spares Roman Empire Vicissitudes

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.”

Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling

“The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.”

Source: Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.”

Doe Play Asks Games Decision Common Impossible Common Sense

Author:Wendell Phillips

“Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.”

Kind Belief Interest Friendship Common Tomorrow Roots Common Interests

Book:notes from china

Source: notes from china

“In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.”

Should Sometimes Reason Order Understanding Growth Common Cutting Phrases Unnecessary Superfluous

Author:Eli Siegel

“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.”

Beautiful Time Waiting Common Painting Scene Succeed Draws Details Veils

Book:Thomas Cole

Source: Thomas Cole

“There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.”

Men Believe Ideas Different Certain Order Common Opinion Modern Intellect Instance Herds Suggesting

Book:The Passing of the Modern Age

Source: The Passing of the Modern Age

“Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.”

Ifs Knows Desire Common Knowledge Clear Danger Development Demand Access Common Sense Reverence Humankind Unlimited Extinction

Author:Bill Joy

“It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.”

Men Want Doe Bigs Common He Man Products Mass Luxury Shops Goods Present Day Big Business Common Man Luxury Goods

Book:An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist

Source: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist

“Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.”

Hard Individual Differences Common Democracy Rich Core Variety Agreement Hard Core Individual Differences

Author:James Bryant Conant

“Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.”

May Moments Moving Humanity Belief Common Mistake Talking Movement Ready Like You Activity Singing Prepared Instance Divinity That Moment Engaging Deluded Common Humanity

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.”

Given Common Painting Anxiety Abstract Abstract Painting

Author:Robert Motherwell

“By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.”

People Writing Used Common Known Tasks Machines Journalism Processing

Author:Robert Motherwell

“After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.”

Years Nations Common Unity Soldier Sentences Willpower Death Sentence Versailles German Soldiers

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.”

Lasts Common Office Property Phrases Public Office Public Trust

Author:Charles Sumner

“We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.”

World Years Believe Said Christian Young Religion Values Religious Common Creatures Years Ago Perfection Islam Repeats Religious Values

Author:Pope John Paul II

“To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.”

Common Sacrifice

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.”

Art Film Form Common Emotion Music Intellect

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”

People Common Beauty Class Middle Movement Ships Appeals Middle Class Broads Gestures Grain Polish

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.”

People Ifs Looks Winning Common Talking Eight Sweden Invigorating

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Nothing common can seem worthy of you.”

Seems Common Worthy

Author:Augustus

“A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.”

Men States Body Together Enjoy Perfect United Common Rights Advantage Free Man Man United

Book:The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations

Source: The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations

“Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.”

People Common Successful Succeed Perseverance Persistence Successful People Common Denominator

Author:Roger Delano Hinkins

“It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.”

World Suffering Individual Nations Common Quality Pride Noble Occasions Sentiments Nobility Treacherous Ignoble

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.”

Purpose Common Leader Following Invisible Followers Common Purpose

Book:Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

Source: Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

“The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.”

Age School Views Common Issues Intellectual Agree Foundation Filled Determined Accepted Atmosphere Discussion Opposing Unspoken

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.”

People Happens Common Attention Perception Pay Attention

Author:Thomas Jones

“It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.”

People World Way Self Common Poet Members Scientist Painter Limitation Renewal

Author:Gary Zukav

“You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Long Matter Happens Together Past Common Luck Common Sense

Author:Richard Petty

“Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, .. His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia.”

Years States Law Individual Given United Common United States Integrity Intellect Common Sense Candidates Dedication Rule Of Law Benches Georgia Years Of Service

Author:Saxby Chambliss

“Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.”

Source: The Lightning and the Sun

“If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.”

Ifs Giving Body Would Be Values Found Left Wish Common Middle Giving Up Common Sense Firm If I Could Never Giving Up Common Ground Middle Ground Shared Values

Author:Tom Daschle

“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”

Giving Art Form Faith Pleasure Common Practice Accomplishment Intensity

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.”

Believe I Believe Common Common Sense Illegal San Francisco Residents

Author:Wayne LaPierre

“France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .”

Ifs Would Be Common Policy Embrace Unions France Agriculture Threatened Proposal Reluctant European Union Tariffs

Author:Christine Lagarde

“The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.”

Should Two Reason Moments Energy Common Produce Diversity Standards Nuclear Common Sense Reason Why Accountability Adopted Incentives Input Output

Author:Frank Luntz

“If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.”

Ifs Should Kids America Turns Common Company Products Common Sense Labels Consumers Contradiction Censorship Mislead Rating

Author:Joe Lieberman

“anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.”

Writing Natural Common Society Subjects Theory Evolution Mechanism Selection Natural Selection Descent Speciation

Author:Ernst Mayr

“Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.”

Doe Seems Song Common Steps Laughing Sacrifice Spring Sunshine Eggs Cows Boots Commerce Cowboy Veteran Ladders Joyous Ripe Secured Carols Hens

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.”

Today Christian Faces Common Christianity Enemy Groups Share Unity Humanism Communist Ideological Love Each Other Universality Common Enemy

Author:Gary North

“The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.”

Play Turns Common Creativity Rewards Satisfaction Misuse Personal Satisfaction

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.”

Self Force Process Common Miracle Sleeves Corrections Revision

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”

“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”

Firsts May Made Important Faces Common New York Red Tasks Democratic Wave Hearing Common Sense Welcome Flags Speakers Abyss Red Flags Subpoenas

Author:Charles Schumer

“So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.”

Spirit Language Common Concerned International Vocabulary Proposal Procedures International Language

Book:General Linguistics

Source: General Linguistics

“Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.”

Use Rooms Common Arrogance Currency

Author:Morley Safer

“I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage.”

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