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• If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Favorable, Common

• It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

  Ray Romano

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self-Esteem, Common

• The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

  Stuart Chase

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in People, Common

• I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We’re putting things together.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Might

• One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speech, Factory, Common

• Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

  Friedrich List

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Principle, Promoted, Common

• To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wine, Common, Glory

• It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

   

  Frederick Pollock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Cannot, Law

• Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

  Frederick Pollock

  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Law, Still, Common
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  The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in See, Common, Miraculous

• The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

  Ben Okri

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Magician, Common

• Meyer and I have a bit in common because we’re both left-handed. I think it’s great that he seeks out that advice because he’s not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

  Barry Zito

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common

• Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

  George William Curtis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Liberty

• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction

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  Samuel Butler

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Common

• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

  Stewart Udall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common

• Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They’re trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

  Dylan McDermott

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Trying, Common

• Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language, Common, Denominator

• If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

  Socrates

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common

• There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Common, Single

• We need a common enemy to unite us.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Common, Need