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“Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.”

People Views Common All Time Common Good

Book:Our National Parks

Source: Our National Parks

“Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.”

Government Nations Common Relation Management Agents Sole Commerce Federal Government

Author:Robert Toombs

“We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.”

War States Might Common Power Benefits Territory Domain Stipulations

Book:Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.”

Men Love Persons Character Hands Age Humanity Evil Found Strong Nations Justice Common Quality Mankind Weak Uplifting Lazy Righteousness Temper Daring Peace Love Short Sighted Bad Character Love Wisdom

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.”

Knows Seems Common Normal Exotic Utah

Author:Brigham Young

“Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.”

Love Littles Names Common Alive Bane Boon

Book:Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.”

Way Common Cold Treats Medicine Contempt Common Cold

Author:William Osler

“God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.”

Humans Heart Might Common Secret Share Human Nature Speech Neighbor Granted Faculty Treasury Recess

Author:Saint Basil

“If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.”

Ifs Men Way Hard States Pleasure Common Accepting Lord Refuse Flesh Common Ground

Author:Saint Basil

“If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.”

Ifs Men Believe Helping Political Order Fighting Politics I Believe Interest Common Leader Policy Trade Unions Bounds I Believe In Employee Factories Railroads Workmen Common Interests

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.”

Ifs Way Giving Wells Whole Use Science Energy Common Numbers Equal Essentials Elements Constant Definitions Defined Divided Quantity Distribution Frequency Calculations Dividing Ergs

Author:Max Planck

“Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.”

Mean Common Practice Common Sense

Author:Will Rogers

“One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.”

Has Beens Age Common One Thing Youth Discontent

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.”

Problem Common Common Sense Application Conservation Common Good

Book:Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings

Source: Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings

“When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.”

Form Spirit Common Enlightenment Understood Constant Circus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Spiritual Common Teacher Common Sense Make Sense Enlightened Cult Listen To Yourself Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we can sort it out with our heart, our intuition, our knowledge, our common sense.”

Believe Heart Moments Common Christianity Don't Believe Intuition Common Sense That Moment Commandments Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.”

Feels Ideas Religious Common Christianity Nice Eternity Salvation Common Sense Fanatics Exclusion Religious Fanatics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.”

Ifs Wells I Can Able Common Meditation Kings Yoga Common Sense Manifest Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.”

Understanding Common Wise Seeing Balance Perception Common Sense Psychics Intuitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Real Running Faces House Common Streets Cat Your Face Crossings Fur

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.”

Common Common Ground Stand Your Ground

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage.”

Ifs Way Character Universe Interesting Common Stage Scales One Way Common Experience

Author:Shane Black

“Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Running Certain Parent Common Situation Extremes Goodbye Common Denominator

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.”

People Believe Persons Lasts Life Is Common Keys Ego Draws Breaths Common Sense Bad Things

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.”

Feelings Action Common Steps Break Too Much Down And Reactions Overwhelming Procrastination Overwhelmed Fear Of Failure Small Actions Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Lauren Mackler

“A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.”

Firsts Language Common Steps Communication Boundaries First Steps Common Language

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.”

Littles Individual Common Quality Pieces Research Impact Average Factors Score Judged Journal Publish

Author:Randy Schekman

“I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.”

Thinking School Felt Common Misfits

Author:Clare Balding

“It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.”

Facts Purpose Goal Christ Community United Common Share Common Goal Common Life

Book:True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

Source: True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.”

Years Made Hands Earth Law Turns Left Stars Common Blood Planets Years Ago Physics Billions Iron Chemistry Molecules Stardust Left Hand

Author:Jill Tarter

“Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans. Whether we're born in San Francisco or Sudan or close to the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”

“The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.”

World Common Willing Practicals Abstract Undertakings

Author:Daniel Kemmis

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”

“The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.”

States United Common United States Laughing Speech Notion Free Speech Make Me Laugh

Book:Diary of H. L. Mencken

Source: Diary of H. L. Mencken

“The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.”

Ifs Men Mind Wells Would Be Common Virtue Wise Equal Defense Common Sense Despise Homely

Author:Don Herold

“We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.”

“Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.”

May Stills Common Attention Virtue Draws Stones Remains Diamond Defects Gems Pebbles Sanctify

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.”

People May Said Nations Common Race Produce Poet Accounts Patient Practicals Common Sense Paradox Strain Explorers Adventurer Shopkeepers

Author:Arthur Bryant

“According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful to recur to the ministry of angels, and those other miraculous means which they say God useth to manifest the doctrine and history of Christ's passion unto such, who, living in the places of the world where the outward preaching of the Gospel is unknown, have well improved the first and common grace.”

World Firsts Wells Mean Passion Christ Common Principles Grace Angel Doctrine Manifest Ministry Preaching Hypothesis Miraculous Objections Universality

Book:An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines

Source: An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines

“Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.”

Should Children Games Common Behavior Our Children Be Good Common Sense Positively Sadistic

Author:Sam Brownback

“Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.”

Imagination Common Discipline Invention Common Sense Strict Wild Imagination

Author:Vanna Bonta

“One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.”

People Important Country Character Fall President Ability Common Virtue Fine Judgment Approach Argument Congress Common Sense Complexity Distinction Decency American Character

Author:Dick Gephardt

“If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.”

Ifs Language Views Common Talking Particular Fit Point Of View Funny Things Java Python Javascript

Author:Guido van Rossum

“One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.”

Loss Common Profit Broke Adages Traders

Author:William Eckhardt

“The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.”

Men Common Moral Civilization Corruption Complacency Common Man Downfall High Places Moral Corruption

Author:E. Digby Baltzell

“Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.”

Common Inevitable Permanent

Book:Slammed: A Novel

Source: Slammed: A Novel

“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”

Form Order Bits Imagination Common Half Saws Fronts Creation Daughter Function Common Sense Aspiration Dozen Delightful Faded Multiplicity Amiable Parlor Scandalous Dandy

Author:Vera Nazarian

“People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.”

“People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different”

People Way Different Problem Able Community Common Perception Solutions Work Out Divided Realistic

Author:Steven Biko