#common

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#common #country #derives #domestic #euro

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#common enemy #commonly #enemy #get #get together

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. ↗

— Margaret Deland

#common sense #conscience #dangerous #dangerous thing #hitched

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

— Albert Einstein

#age #collection #common #common sense #eighteen

Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can understand each other's past. We Chinese have been collective for so long, personal histories are not worth mentioning. Therefore as soon as Xiaolin and I knew how old the other was, we knew exactly what big shit had happened in our lives. The introduction of the One Child Policy shortly before out births, for instance and the fact that, in 1985, two pandas were sent to the USA as a national gift and we had to sing a tearful panda song at school. 1989 was the Tiananmen Square student demonstration. Anyway, Xiaolin was one year younger than me, so I assumed we were from the same generation. ↗

— Xiaolu Guo

#culture #lived-history #mores #temporality #age

People regard art too highly, and history not enough ↗

— John Irving

#common-sense #history #art

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#comes #common #common sense #great #maturity

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#art #been #before #common #doing

If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense. (p.72) ↗

— Chip Heath

#communication #express #message #communication