Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate.

The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

I feel like everyone kind of knew someone, like 6 degrees of separation. In Hollywood that is very common.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Whatever changes a common man wants to bring in the country, he can bring it through the process of voting.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

He [Donald Trump] hasn`t shifted on a lot of the things that he had in common with his Republican opponents.

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

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