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Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
Pope Francis
Politics
Good
Dedication
Vocation
Martyrdom
Noble
Practise
Testimony
Die
Common
Common Good
Should
Requires
Activity
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Richard P. Feynman
You
Result
Will
First
Sense
Out
More
More Or Less
Students
Know
Learn
Method
Subject
Common
Want
Common Sense
Them
Figure
Less
Why
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.
Robert Winston
Depression
Bullying
Experience
Problem
Example
Related
Cities
More
Tends
For Example
Most
Frequently
Domestic
Childhood
Refugees
Common
Famine
Being
Children
Social
Deprivation
Who
Wartime
Serious
Among
Inner
Violence
Cold weather probably played a bigger role in bringing back the hat, but sadly, the hat common to New Jersey guidos, South Carolina rednecks, Idaho potato farmers and Los Angeles gang bangers is the ubiquitous 'tractor hat,' which is derived from the cheap baseball style cap with the adjustable plastic tab.
Roger Stone
Weather
Style
Cold
Cold Weather
Back
Carolina
Hat
Tab
Angeles
Potato
Cheap
Idaho
New
Sadly
Tractor
New Jersey
Los
Los Angeles
South
South Carolina
Role
Common
Bigger
Which
Cap
Farmers
Derived
Gang
Plastic
Baseball
Jersey
Played
Bringing
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Man
Complicated
Rest
Sense
Thinking
Our
Striving
Spirit
Insofar
Points
Observation
He
Most
Well
Scientific
Pillars
Departure
Common
Common Sense
Workings
Fundamental
Conscious
Two
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
Saint Ambrose
God
Food
Property
Universe
Earth
Also
Common
Might
Manner
Created
Should
Derive
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine
Life
Class
Animal
Pain
Action
Every
Pleasure
Seeking
Animal Life
Beasts
Concerned
Common
Bodily
Certainly
Avoiding
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
Life
Health
Good
Needs
Respect
Dignity
Care
Others
Physical
Physical Health
Due
Human
Common
Common Good
Regard
Human Dignity
Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
Sam Kean
Class
Earth
Minerals
Has-Been
Collectively
Almost
Abundant
Since
Crust
Most
Metal
Least
Been
Times
Greek
Iron
Roman
Common
Use
Twice
Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible to all.
Seth Moulton
Property
Cause
Federal
Most
Insurance
Accessible
Affordable
Common
Common Cause
Which
Should
Flood
Flooding
Why
Damage
What is common sense isn't common practice.
Stephen Covey
Practice
Sense
Common
Common Sense
I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
Stephen R. Donaldson
Old
Dirt
Lot
May
Common
Awful
Awful Lot
Starting
Most people I know that are successful have a few things in common that are undeniable: driving ambition, and they have applied that to something they're good at, that they love doing... and they are fun to be around, especially when they're talking about their passion.
Steve Wynn
Love
Good
People
Passion
Ambition
Few
About
Something
Driving
Undeniable
Know
Most
Talking
Around
Doing
Few Things
Common
Successful
Fun
Things
Applied
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall
Son
People
Earth
Alive
Brother
Touch
He
Shared
Primitive
Most
Reverence
His
Trait
American
Common
Native
Native American
Loving
Land
Ethic
Elemental
Creatures
We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus.
Sy Montgomery
You
Half
Our
Ancestors
Split
Make
Octopus
Years
Years Ago
Friends
Common
Billion
Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
T. C. Boyle
Sometimes
Find
More
Often
Common
Common Ground
Ground
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
Tarja Halonen
Creative
Learning
Women
Opportunity
Thrive
Only
Potential
Finland
Counterparts
Male
Common
Century
Use
Full
Guaranteed
As I got older, I started realizing that though people differ in skin tone, religious beliefs, cultures, and food, one thing we all have in common is emotions, so I tapped into emotions.
Tech N9ne
Food
People
Emotions
Skin
Older
Though
One Thing
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Got
Cultures
Common
Differ
Realizing
Beliefs
Thing
Tone
Started
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Temple Grandin
Work
Will
Young
Intervention
Seems
Another
Does
Method
Educational
Denominator
Child
Improve
May
Common
Common Denominator
Children
Young Children
Early
Treatment
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Terence
Clever
Sense
Common
Grand
Common Sense
Thing
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
Good
Law
Care
Made
Community
Him
Common
Common Good
Ordinance
Reason
Who
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
Best
Science
Sense
Logic
Observation
Merciless
Simply
Fallacy
Accurate
Common
Common Sense
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
Beautiful
Science
Ugly
Sense
Fact
Common
Where
Common Sense
Organized
Theory
Many
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Thomas Perry
Good
You
Signs
Good Person
Active
Virtues
Characters
Thriller
Unsavory
Most
Make
Refer
Person
Common
Predatory
Useful
Who
Novel
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Thomas Sowell
Fear
Decency
Run
Instead
Academics
Up
Campus
Just
Common
Barbarians
Stand
Stand Up
Letting
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
Tom Bodett
Broadcasting
Pretension
Uncomfortable
Take
Come
Always
Been
Stock
Very
Common
Disingenuous
Forms
Including
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