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Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
John Edward Christopher Hill
Old
Young
Sense
Varies
Common
Common Sense
Among
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles
World
One Thing
Write
Alternative
Common
Create
Reasons
Many
Novelists
Why
Thing
Need
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
John Grierson
Happiness
Good
School
Nothing
Other
Philosophy
Aberration
Some
Spirit
Case
Oneself
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Never
Learned
Than
Any
Human
Taught
Common
Common Good
Anything
Regarded
Which
Us
Human Spirit
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
John Hench
Day
You
People
Looking
Those
Eye
Kind
Horizon
About
Instance
Idea
Because
Understood
Get
Did
Walt
Common
Common Things
Your
Even
Level
Things
Eliminate
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
John Hodgman
Love
Nurture
Cocktail
Incredible
One Thing
Find
Ability
Parties
Editors
Taste
Authors
Common
Aside
Agents
Publishers
Thing
When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'
John Kasich
You
Job
Sense
President
Out
Out Here
Following
More
Know
Budgets
Him
Balancing
Said
Governor
Governor Romney
Friendly
Get
Going
Common
Being
Common Sense
Romney
Formula
Taxes
Cutting
Creating
Regulations
Using
Here
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
John Lahr
History
Money
Problems
Own
White
Living
Our
Later
Franchise
Kids
Recognizable
Rise
Postwar
Civilization
Had
Term
New
Greatest
Were
Mobility
Western
Western Civilization
Decade
Common
The History Of
Usage
Income
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
John Lydon
Sense
Disposition
Proposition
Perfectly
Towards
French
Common
Common Sense
Ludicrous
If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.
John McAfee
Other
Programs
Network
Directory
Could
Environment
Operating
Accessible
Domain
Any
Common
Place
Public
Public Domain
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
John Philpot Curran
Rights
Fate
Become
Active
See
Prey
Common
Consumers around the world are excited to share common experiences.
John Quelch
World
Consumers
Share
Excited
Around
Common
Experiences
Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.
John Ralston Saul
Good
Democracy
Way
Extremely
Complex
Finding
Constantly
Some
About
Absolute
Developing
Practical
Comfortable
Within
How
Concrete
Very
Options
Common
Common Good
Grand
Choosing
Express
Searching
Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro, and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the E.U. fraught with tension and trouble.
John Redwood
Relationship
Problem
Trouble
Wish
Country
Our
Fraught
Stay
Area
Join
Tension
Aloof
Most
Makes
Common
Frontiers
Want
Us
Euro
There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.
John Sulston
Good
Progress
Wealth
Debate
Important
Believe
Society
Our
Extremely
Say
Those
Would
Tension
Between
Like
Also
Always
Lot
Contribute
Common
Want
Common Good
Views
Who
Garner
Two
I think India should be our top ally in Asia Pacific. And the two countries have so much in common, including being the largest and most powerful democracies.
John T. Chambers
Democracy
Think
Our
Top
India
Ally
Powerful
Countries
Most
Most Powerful
Common
Being
Pacific
Asia
Much
Should
Including
Largest
Two
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
John Warner
Judgment
Sense
Last-Minute
Member
Tried
No Reason
Individual
Outraged
Through
House
Principles
Returns
Am
Traditional
Provision
American
Confidentiality
Common
Tax
Breach
Common Sense
Tax Returns
Act
Measure
Reason
Violates
It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.
John Wycliffe
Truth
Faith
Better
Church
Sense
Christian
Latin
Evident
More
Only
True
Contained
Doctrine
Also
Known
Becomes
True Sense
Itself
Common
Scriptures
Certain
Should
Therefore
Christian Faith
Tongue
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.
Johnny Knoxville
Hurt
Parents
Wish
Sense
Kids
Would
Doing
Get
Common
Unfortunate
Common Sense
Really
Monitor
Watching
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Johnny Van Zant
Class
People
About
Write
Always
Real
America
Common
Stories
Common People
Common Things
Working
Working-Class
Things
There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.
Jon Kyl
Family
You
Business
Whatever
Finally
Kind
Find
See
Point
Points
Over
Making
Discussions
Get
Any
Common
Where
Common Ground
Whether
Your
Ground
Now
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
Jon Taffer
Failure
Blame
People
Somebody
Else
Nine
Out
Ten
Failing
Denominator
Common
Common Denominator
Who
I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.
Jon Tester
Hope
Me
Somebody
Sense
Think
Other
See
Know
Tractor
Equipment
How
Am
Fixing
Senators
Common
Common Sense
Really
Farmer
Grounded
Who
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Jonathan Mayhew
Government
Safety
Submission
Civil
Civil Government
Only
Rational
Institution
Common
Ground
Reason
Utility
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
Jonathan Turley
Life
You
Obligation
Law
Duty
Rule
Danger
Rules
Says
Responsible
Would
Cost
Someone
Risk
More
Were
Controversial
Common
Common Law
Placing
Little
Them
Rescue
Help
Even
Save
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
Joni Mitchell
Me
Three
Nothing
Sick
Writers
Anne
Make
Augustine
Common
Them
I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.
Jordan Bridges
You
Photography
Light
Stage
Think
Medium
Similar
Color
Share
Feel
Over
Crafts
Common
Different
Form
Really
Acting
Painter
Whole
Film
Switching
Conscious
Things
Two
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