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Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.
You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them.
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.
The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort of common sense.
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
The one common thread is purity. I created a look that highlights the innate beauty of the face from the eyes to the lip to clear, shiny skin.
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Perhaps the most common argument against the advocates of cancel culture is that they're lame and uncreative - and I think they generally are.
It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.
As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
It's very important that we all have a common understanding of our purpose as a business - what we aspire to - and a strategy for achieving it.
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.
Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both.
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.
I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.
We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.
Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.