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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Ernest Hemingway
Good
Books
One Thing
Had
Truer
Than
Common
Happened
Really
Thing
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
Politics
War
Man
Construction
Doctor
Engineer
Job
Satisfied
Sick
General
Only
Uncommon
Get
Common
Want
Common Man
America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.
John McCain
Rights
People
Invent
Human Rights
Those
Out
All People
Religions
Simply
Cultures
America
Human
Common
Nations
Cannot
Them
Choose
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Education
Better
Sense
Thousand
Thousand Times
Without
Times
Than
Common
Common Sense
I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
Tom Brady
Love
Part
Toward
Goal
Just
Common
Being
Common Goal
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Team
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
Happiness
Success
Procrastination
Most
Deadliest
Diseases
Common
Heavy
Toll
Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.
Bob Marley
Me
You
Man
Simple
Will
Sense
Too
Baby
Way
Simple Way
Know
Understand
Very
Common
Common Sense
Explain
Mean
Things
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana
Good
Sense
Only
Because
Limited
Nonsense
Common
Common Sense
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken
Crime
Argument
Poverty
Kind
Caused
Common
Poor
Slander
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
Hack Wilson
Life
Good
You
Advice
Sense
Besides
More
Talent
Like
Common
Common Sense
Good Advice
Many
Things
Need
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
Words
Big
Sense
Philosophy
Common
Common Sense
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
Wisdom
Morning
Experience
Problem
Difficult
Resolved
Committee
Common
After
Worked
Night
Sleep
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
Enemy
Along
Well
Get
Common
Common Enemy
Grandchildren
Grandparents
Reason
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Satchel Paige
Man
Born
Got
Common
Being
Average
Avoid
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
Viggo Mortensen
You
Yourself
People
Be Kind
First
Other
Minded
Out
Kind
Worthwhile
Totally
About
Habit
Somewhat
Points
Allow
Open
Step
Open-Minded
Make
Learn
First Step
Doing
Opposite
Effort
Curious
Get
Common
Being
Them
Might
Realizing
View
Your
Figure
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
Best
People
World
Looking
Makes
Lord
Common
Them
Reason
Many
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
Life
Freedom
Enemy
Anarchy
Worst
Total
Efficiency
Common
Second
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
Andrea Dworkin
Reality
Genius
Rebellion
Oppressor
Other
System
Obscure
Make
Isolate
Condition
Any
Common
Dynamics
Which
Against
Each
Found
United
Inconceivable
Slave
Slaves
That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
Barack Obama
Future
Together
People
Fear
Stronger
Affection
Own
Our
Those
Embrace
Shape
Than
America
Common
Creed
Bonds
Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
Bernice King
Good
You
Together
People
Will
Building
Society
Other
Out
All Races
Religions
Seek
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Alliance
Join
Put
Betterment
Quest
Cultures
End
Discrimination
Sisters
Common
Nations
Forms
Races
Racial
Prejudice
Your
Who
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington
Life
Top
Must
Bottom
Glorify
Labor
Begin
Common
I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina
Day
Angry
Anger
Every Day
People
Ending
Sense
Every
Think
Extreme
Considered
Secure
Cities
Border
Somehow
Like
Hear
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Common
Common Sense
Commonsense
Sanctuary
Thing
Need
There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.
Eugene H. Peterson
Bible
People
Language
First
Lose
Nothing
Difficult
Everything
Way
Something
Written
Spoken
Academic
Most
Make
Terribly
Least
Were
Oral
Common
Common Language
Illiterate
Technical
Street
Receive
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke
Other
New
Because
Without
Always
Opinions
Opposed
Suspected
Any
Common
Reason
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
Kevin Feige
You
Learning
Will
Build
Tolerance
Rejection
Occurrence
Up
Trying
Going
Often
Common
Help
Keep
Keep Going
Early
Resistance
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
Marquis de Lafayette
Try
Sense
Think
Out
Examine
Put
Study
Idea
Read
Listen
Common
Form
Which
Common Sense
Much
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