Famous quotes containing the word common:
“The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motionthe earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egyptboth with the common motion and with their own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
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