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“With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.”

Should Mind Names Common Sun Influence Particular Authority Intellectual Deserve Weight Errors Superiors Remembered Horizon Posterity Beam

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.”

People Men Eye Common Wonder Judging Honor Fame Deserve Slave Ill Titles Merit Popularity

Author:Horace

“The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.”

Knows Men Want Hard Common Deserve Common Man

Author:H. L. Mencken

“America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.”

America Values Interest Common Deserve Immigration Common Sense Reform Immigration Reform

Author:Hank Johnson

“This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.”

Common Cities Deserve Universal Rome Our Love

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.”

Ifs I Can Different Reason Film Turns Understanding My Own Common Moral Position Projects Deserve Score Schedules

Author:John Keltonic

“Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.”

Belief Common Christianity Deserve Islam Abraham

Author:Walter Kasper

“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.”

“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.”

Men Want Literature Wish Natural Ability Common Mistake Cost Succeed Deserve Acquire Condemnation Common Things

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

People Knows Want Hard Politics Freedom Common Democracy Theory Politician Deserve Democracies Have Voting And Democracy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.”

People Real Common Pay Willing Deserve Prepared Pot Economist Percentages Contributing

Author:James Surowiecki

“Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure that all students can receive the college and career ready, world class education they deserve, no matter where they live. I applaud the states efforts that got us here today and the work of NGA, CCSSO and Achieve in supporting this important achievement.”

“Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.”

“When it comes to the common rights and needs of men and women, there is no clash of civilizations. The requirements of freedom apply fully to Africa and Latin America and the entire Islamic world. The peoples of the Islamic nations want and deserve the same freedoms and opportunities as people in every nation. And their governments should listen to their hopes.”