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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.
My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger.
When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.
The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.
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.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
There's a common misconception that if I uploaded a 20-minute video that I just pressed 'record' and put it online. It's not that at all.
The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.
When I was little, my parents would have these gatherings, and it was a common thing for me and my cousins to have to put on, like, shows.
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.
I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.
It's all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just white women.
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
All of you, leave," Vlad responded curtly. "That's not nice," I mumbled. "You should talk to them before you bite them, too. Common curtesy.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.