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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. John Burroughs
Death Queen Will Nothing Starve Herself Rival Never She Sting Bees Common Use Her Royalty
My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind. John Kasich
People Sense Tell Restore About Economic Economic Growth Like Provide Campaigns Behind Common Anybody Movement Common Sense Really Elections Growth Things
The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ. John Paul Jones
Alone Class Those Determines Adventurers Employ Well Principle Self-Interest Than Owners Common Mankind Whom
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. Jonathan Sacks
Work Good Home Together Build Idea Rediscover Common Common Good Work Together Need
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison
Life Nature Man Grief Humanity Enough Adding Our Evils Had Cruel Calamity Sorrows Another Continually Condition Subject Very Sown Common Aggravating Pains Treatment
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. Joseph Addison
Nature Man Change Fool Ride Men Sail Sense Out Himself Climate Goes May Common Cannot Common Sense
When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good. Joseph Stiglitz
Good You Together Society Divided Investments Highly Come Make Common Common Good Hard
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Josh Billings
Genius Sense Enough Instinct Common Common Sense
I've always believed in speaking my mind, and I think the technology has made it more prominent. Even a common man's voice is heard prominently now, much to the chagrin and surprise of politicians. They aren't used to that. Kamal Haasan
Technology Man Mind Made Politicians Think Prominent More Voice Always Surprise Heard Common Much Used Speaking Chagrin Even Now Believed
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Life Words Sum Make Been Common Might
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice. Louis D. Brandeis
Good Democracy Justice Liberty Own Individual Through Attainment Development Ideals His American Common Common Good Social Social Justice
The Internet is a worldwide platform for sharing information. It is a community of common interests. No country is immune to such global challenges as cybercrime, hacking, and invasion of privacy. Lu Wei
Privacy Challenges Internet Country Community Worldwide No Country Immune Invasion Hacking Sharing Global Common Common Interests Information Interests Platform
It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness. Madchen Amick
Overcome Possible Mental Mental Illness Very Manage Common Illness
Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill. Margaret Chan
Will Medicine Virtually Back Once Say Some Throat Could Knee New Know Terms Dry Era Effect Antibiotics End Replacement Pipeline Child Modern Scratched Common Experts Again Moving Means Things
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. Margaret Deland
Spiritual Sense Dissipation Virtue Self-Sacrifice Denies Common Which Common Sense
A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it. May-Britt Moser
Good You Result Will Focus Before Final Hunt Details Both Excellence Perfection Know Lot Common Really Researcher Designer
Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts. Michael Dell
Business Problem Opportunity Made Big Every Other Took System Components Solving About Cost Idea Parts Were Discovered Discoveries Begins Big One Common Bigger Apart Interesting Breakthrough Companies Two
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. Milan Kundera
Me People Feelings Nothing See Brotherly More Another Than Common Repugnant Grounded
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society. N. R. Narayana Murthy
People Men Rich Society Earned Part Context Off Forget Get Common Them Cut Themselves Riches
With age comes common sense and wisdom. Nas
Wisdom Age Sense Common Common Sense
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock. Nostradamus
Great Fate Will Meet Soldier He Empire Make Rock Condemned His Common Eventually
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. Orson Welles
Man Cause Word Otherwise Lawless Something Could Never Had Developed Idea Opened Protestant Been Cultures America Common Frontier Mean Your Bond Jewish
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong. Patti Smith
You Try Sense Thomas Say See Point Point Of View Wrong Like Look Around Always Am Articulate Politically Just Common Common Sense Really Should View Paine Speaking Humanist Things
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. Peter Welch
Politics You Confidence People Progress Disagree Too Bad Would Find Some Someone Give More Tendency Wrong Sooner Make Attribute Got Motivation Quickly Than Common Common Ground Much Ground Harder Right
God must hate common people, because he made them so common. Philip Wylie
God Hate People Made Must He Because Common Common People Them
I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life. Pope Benedict XVI
Positive Life Education Church Will Important Sense Liberation Must Both Rationality Term Know Always Private Private Life Very Offers Contribution Common Which Public Us Much Theology Help Fundamental Conscience Interpreted
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