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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden

Love, Laugh, Find

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney

Through, Far, Characters

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.
Ron Paul

Time, Hard, Person

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman

Best, Genius, United

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn

Strength, Greatest, Sense

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken

Sports, Hate, Person

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn

Life, Age, Happy

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

Power, Thinking, Give

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton

Good, Saying, May

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

Success, Humble, Makes

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness, Power, Art

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life, Nature, Humanity

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
John Wooden

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

Poor, Poverty, Crime

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing, Different, Personal

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.
Mitt Romney

Different, Sometimes, Service

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu

Victory, Within, Excellence

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Freedom, Enemy

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Sense, Fortune

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

Excellence, Uncommon

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

Education, Sense, Result

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James

Life, Thinking, Blame

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher

Philosophy, Sense, Next

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.
Marcus Garvey

Done, Whatsoever

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
James F. Cooper

Character, Him, Around

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky

Success, Happiness, Heavy

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion, Stuff, Quiet

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

Life, Attention, Command

Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo

Sense, Genius, Taste

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Labor, Top

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