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Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet

Beauty, Beautiful, Fun

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Age, Sense, Eighteen

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Education, Alone, Nothing

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain

Humanity, Satan, Needed

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Reason, Makes

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Humor, Moving, Different

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Children, Same

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

Courage, Moral, Physical

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Dalai Lama

Today, Together, Different

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Islam, Justice, Human

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.
Oscar Wilde

Mistakes, Die, Sense

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality, Nothing, Democracy

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Education, Sense, Times

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams

Design, Trying, Mistake

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working, Sense, Genius

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell

Trust, Failure, Dangerous

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Hard, Democracy

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society, Sense, Surprise

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Children, Small, Same

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Nothing, Sense

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, Mark, Miraculous

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius

Virtue, Comfort, Thinks

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Lie, Others, Lies

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

Men, Business, Special

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

Morning, Experience, Sleep

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religion, Wise, True

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

Equality, Die, Talk

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