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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
Wayne Newton
First
Met
Elvis
Had
Became
Friends
Common
Much
Fast
It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
Wendy Kopp
Education
Time
Problems
Our
Collaborating
Solve
More
Higher
Arms
Arms Race
Than
Common
Gain
Race
Declare
Far
Competing
They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
Wendy Long
Government
Good
Constitution
People
Free
Limited Government
Sense
Believe
Our
Markets
Those
Free Markets
Free People
New
Know
Principles
Limited
Always
Lots
American
York
Going
Stood
Common
New York
Common Sense
Stand
Who
Right
Here
It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain.
Whitney Tilson
Nature
Joy
Pain
Human Nature
Down
Something
More
Investors
Most
Tangible
Go
Up
Than
Stocks
Going
Human
Impulse
Common
Anything
When reviewing one's portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is commitment bias, which, as manifested in investing, is the tendency to fall in love with one's stocks.
Whitney Tilson
Love
Commitment
Important
Mistakes
Fall
Bad
Mental
Tendency
Lead
Investing
Powerful
Most
Bias
Most Powerful
Reviewing
Stocks
May
Common
Which
Manifested
Decisions
Aware
Portfolio
Because the world we live in is more dangerous than our parents' was, and our children are set to inherit a world more dangerous than ours, Congress must get right our mandated mission to provide for the common defense of our country.
Will Hurd
World
Dangerous
Parents
Country
Congress
Live
Defense
Our
Ours
Must
More
Mission
Because
Provide
Than
Get
Common
Children
Inherit
Right
Set
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
Willem Dafoe
Family
Father
Big
William
Hated
Born
Netherlands
Name
Came
Big Family
Very
Dutch
Common
Being
Billy
Nickname
It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.
William Billings
Time
Best
First
Way
Best Way
Triple
Lay
Part
Emphasis
Parts
Common
Bar
Much
Third
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
William Ernest Henley
Men
Minds
Shakespeare
Rembrandt
Faculty
Combat
Quickening
Discussion
Common
Compelling
Speculation
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
William Gilbert
Stronger
Argument
Secret
Philosophical
Hidden
Investigation
Obtained
Sort
Sure
Opinions
Causes
Discovery
Than
Probable
Common
Experiments
Conjecture
Reasons
Things
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
William H. Macy
People
Men
Must
Admit
Leading
Affairs
Quite
Common
Ladies
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
William Hague
Marriage
People
Independence
Country
Sense
Savings
Spending
Only
Supporting
Know
Encouraging
Afford
Rewarding
Common
Common Sense
Things
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
Happiness
Life
Love
Friendship
Trust
Marriage
Others
Our
Security
How
Affairs
Hands
Common
Little
Even
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
William Henry Ashley
War
People
Other
Indians
Guns
Some
Dressed
Generally
Had
Armed
Missouri
Well
Instruments
Bows
Were
Arrows
Common
Skins
Among
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.
William Henry Ashley
Three
Out
Days
Least
Falling
Snow
Common
Note
Two
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
William Inge
Wisdom
Wise
Degree
Sense
Uncommon
Common
Common Sense
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
William Kingdon Clifford
Good
Depend
Sense
Algebra
Bad
Always
Sound
May
Common
Cannot
Which
Common Sense
Translated
English
Most blockchain platforms don't share that much in common, resulting in choice lock-ins, lack of interoperability, and potentially dead-ends that are hard to untangle.
William Mougayar
Blockchain
Potentially
Resulting
Share
Most
Lack
Common
Much
Choice
Hard
Platforms
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith
Be True
Myth
Sense
Every
Philosophy
Arbitrary
Religious
Allegorical
Ritual
Facts
True
Demand
Categories
Principle
Sought
Itself
Common
Which
Common Sense
Explained
Custom
Explanation
Requires
Actual
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
William Robertson Smith
Savage
Religion
Better
Nothing
State
Tribe
Magical
Superstitions
Rites
Individual
Terror
Foreign
Private
Dictate
Times
May
Common
We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.
Winston Marshall
Band
Our
Tour
Because
Common
Wanted
Formed
Interest
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska
Daily
Herd
Above
Poets
Read
Course
Understood
Yearn
Common
Anything
Little
Grind
Themselves
Published
Set
As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be better paid than others, and so I wish to have fewer scholars. It is advisable to hang back a little at first, or it is all over with you, and you must pursue the common highway with the rest.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You
Better
Rest
First
Wish
Others
Back
Pupils
Must
Pursue
Take
Scholars
Highway
Over
Advisable
Than
Intend
Hang
Fewer
Common
Little
Paid
Choose
Many
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson
Life
Politics
Business
My Life
Other
All My Life
Frankness
Has-Been
Dream
Something
Absolute
Understand
Been
Discuss
Owe
Common
Each
It's interesting to go places and see that, at the end of the day, people just want to feel safe, and what that looks like to them varies... but that was encouraging to see that there is more common ground than perhaps I realized.
Wyatt Cenac
Day
People
End Of The Day
See
More
Varies
Feel
Like
Perhaps
Safe
Looks
Go
Encouraging
End
Than
Just
Common
Want
Common Ground
Places
Interesting
Them
Realized
Ground
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
Yael Naim
Music
Religion
You
People
Song
Country
Finding
Point
Songs
Between
Like
Another
Same
Just
Common
Basically
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