“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.” IfsHas BeensFactsBodyFormLossCommonPoetOughtCostMusicianToolsStonesFundamentalsMythSuperiorsPainterSymbolsSubstanceSavagesEffectivenessPierce Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.” WellsMayHas BeensRealValuesSoundLossCommonCompanyKnownPositionBearsCostPaperLowsConsequenceThirdsImportanceSellsExtraordinaryDefinedAffectedInvestorsDeclineCentsConvincingIndicationDeterioration Author:Benjamin Graham
“In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.” FactsCommonHonestyCost Book:Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God Source: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
“I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.” FeelsWritingTryingMayBookIdeasCommonWrittenTroubleWorstCostRemainsPressesNo IdeaAlasCorrecting Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843 Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1837-1843
“Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.” MatterStatesFightingUnitedCommonEnemyUnited StatesCostNo Matter WhatDeterminedTerroristIllegalAlsAfghanistanAl QaedaTalibanSwapping Author:John Bolton
“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.” WayWellsKindDoeMadeUseProblemFoundCommonEconomyClearSeaExampleReadyMaterialsCostDemandRiversManagementSolveCommon SensePlentyExpensesConstructionArchitectSiteMarbleRubbleThrifty Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.” TryingHelpingSimpleCommonCostIncreaseEaseRegionsCustomsArrangementsTradingSimple ThingsTelecommunicationsPaperless Author:Andrew Robb
“Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.” NeedsFactsFacesFoundInterestChristCommonHonestyCostMessagesStressLaysCrowdsFollowingSinnerUrgesGatheringPresentationFollowing Christ Author:J. I. Packer
“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.” MenWantLiteratureWishNaturalAbilityCommonMistakeCostSucceedDeserveAcquireCondemnationCommon Things Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.” ThinkingKindEnoughCommonChristianitySacrificeCostThis DayWorldly Author:J. C. Ryle