The unwritten law - the common law
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Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.
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Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies, and maintain us in everlasting concord.. All ran towards their chains believing that they were securing their liberty, for although they had reason enough to discern the advantages of a civil order, they did not have the experience enough to foresee the dangers.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception
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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again.
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We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Heartsick, heartbroken? To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular. That with it we probe the divine.
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People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves
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Love is not altogether a, yet it has many points in common therewith
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Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand
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The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species
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Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
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Woman reduces us all to a common denomination
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The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them
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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
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If all our 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
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Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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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.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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