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It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.
Theo Paphitis
People
Sense
Most
Common
Common Sense
The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.
Theodor Mommsen
Mother
Nation
Those
Italian
Germanic
Sisters
Celtic
Common
Endowment
Different
Received
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
Theodore Bikel
Words
Cause
Those
Guitars
Weapons
Make
Common
Common Cause
Prefer
Whose
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
Theodore Dalrymple
People
Parents
Our
Alike
Object
Blamed
Failings
Failures
Perhaps
Most
Frequently
Common
Who
Resentment
Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.
Theodore Melfi
Family
You
People
Care
Nothing
About
Just
Common
Moment
Even
Bond
We owe it to the American people to set aside the areas where our ideology may prevent progress and find common ground where there are plenty of opportunities to produce good results.
Thom Tillis
Good
People
Progress
Opportunities
Ideology
Our
Plenty
Find
Prevent
Area
Results
Owe
American
May
Common
Where
Common Ground
Aside
American People
Produce
Ground
Set
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Huxley
Truth
Long
Sense
Run
Only
Long Run
Common
Common Sense
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
Thomas Kinkade
Happy
People
Matter
Something
Share
Like
Make
Norman
Norman Rockwell
Walt
Walt Disney
Common
Really
Disney
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
Thomas Piketty
Capitalism
Innovation
Wealth
Market
Market Forces
Ensure
Powerful
Forces
Very
Common
Interest
Producing
Act
Need
It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Good
Great
Cause
Men
Ruin
Philosophy
Rule
Having
More
Counselors
Never
Princes
Lords
Ambitious
Maxim
Common
Desire
Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.
Tim Cope
Good
Yourself
Challenge
Extreme
Possible
Would
Share
Steve
Common
Common Belief
Belief
There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.
Tim Finn
Music
Will
Other
Lyric
Finally
Some
Through
Had
Songs
Come
Does
Years
Quickly
Common
Where
Happen
Then
Really
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
Timothy Garton Ash
States
Distinguishing
Crude
Obsession
Stereotyping
Another
Canadians
Often
Common
Themselves
Europeans
United
United States
Thing
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
Timothy Noah
Finance
Health
Wealth
Care
More
Health Care
Lot
Than
Common
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
Tina Brown
Day
Every Day
World
Men
Conviction
Every
Alpha
Around
Denominator
Revolves
Common
Common Denominator
Them
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
Todd Gitlin
Good
Day
Strong
Value
Side
Right Side
Define
Out
Fine
Fine Day
Some
Divide
Democrats
How
America
Get
May
Common
Common Good
Place
Figure
Right
Playground
There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.
Todor Zhivkov
Problems
Settlement
Some
Participate
Also
Balkans
Bulgaria
Common
Which
Should
Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.
Tom Brokaw
Culture
Doctor
Language
Enter
Ancient
Visitor
Temple
Mysterious
Hospital
Most
Were
Office
Common
Representing
Patients
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
Tom Coburn
Government
People
Focus
Responsibility
First
Country
Party
Limited Government
Sense
Give
Simply
Well
Principles
Limited
Fiscal
Fiscal Responsibility
Govern
American
Common
Want
Common Sense
Republicans
American People
Should
Dedicated
Honest
Save
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
Tom G. Palmer
Good
World
Liberty
Inevitable
Libertarians
Recognize
Pluralism
Individual
Individual Liberty
Part
Least
Modern
Common
Common Good
Modern World
Reason
Assert
Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.
Tom Perez
Rights
Enemies
Values
Civil
Civil Rights
Objectives
Shared
Also
Just
Common
Common Values
Union
Activists
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
Politics
Wisdom
You
Game
People
Cause
Building
Community
Rules
About
Instead
Support
Identifying
Around
Passionate
Very
Common
Different
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Create
Ignoring
Organizing
Company
Grassroots
Whom
Playing
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.
Tom Shales
Death
Music
Time
Carol
Carol Burnett
TV
Brothers
Variety
Had
Red
Prime
Stuffed
Prime Time
Major
Hour
Talents
Making
Very
Commercials
Pryor
Common
Censored
Literally
Burnett
Richard
Richard Pryor
Used
Who
Shows
Brief
NBC
Treasured
Welcome to the brave new world of American multiculturalism. From a nation of diverse peoples united by a common culture, we have become a people divided by a common malady.
Tom Tancredo
Welcome
Culture
People
World
Become
Nation
Diverse
Divided
New
Malady
American
Brave
Brave New World
New World
Common
Multiculturalism
United
Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
Tony Campolo
Problem
Abortion
Think
Though
Solve
Prior
Making
Wade
Were
Roe
Going
Common
Again
Them
Illegal
Even
Football is oneness in action. When played well, it is unity on display. Players come from different races and different backgrounds. However, when they get on the field, they harmonize their differences toward a common goal.
Tony Evans
Differences
Field
Action
Unity
Harmonize
Backgrounds
Oneness
Football
Toward
Come
Well
However
Goal
Get
Common
Different
Common Goal
Different Backgrounds
Races
Display
Played
Players
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