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  One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

  Mindy Kaling

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Struggle, Common

• Common is overrated.

  Ally Carter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common

• And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

  Alfred Tennyson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common

• I don’t think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life… I’m not saying I’m a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn’t told what not to do all the time – my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn’t – I got to develop on my own. It’s part of your common sense.

  Randy Houser

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Role Model, Common, Strict

• Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

  Jack Horner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Everywhere

• The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That’s a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

  Gavin Hood

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Greedy

• Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It’s an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.

  John Hodgman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishers, Common

• I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

  Ian Hislop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Condition, Common

• We need to have a modicum of faith in people’s common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Obstacles

• I’m not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

  Steve Harvey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Tremendous

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years – we have a lot of songs to pull from and it’s a different dynamic – a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows – it’s kind of a little like ‘hey, we’re this new band.’

  Taylor Hanson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Dynamic
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  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

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Need, Common

• Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

  William Hague

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rewarding, Common

• Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.

  William Hague

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Standards, Common

• I have a good Muslim friend who comes over to my house. Good guy; reads the Qur’an in Arabic. He comes over to my house and we talk about faith and we talk about things we have in common, but I can’t shy away from the differences that we have. So I talk about why I’m not a Muslim and about the evidence that exists that show Christianity is true.

  Lee Strobel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shy, Common

• The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

  Francis Spufford

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Common, Deeply
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  Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

  Henry Wheeler Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common, Seeing

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

  Stuart Chase

  Topics in Beauty, Humor

  Tags in People, Common

• It’s one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  Sam Shepard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contemporary, Common

• The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with a dollar sign the way Gene Simmons probably always wanted to.

  Rob Sheffield

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spelling, Common