#common

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#birth #common #cowards #death #escape

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#common #could #different #different types #environment

We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#common #continue #fight #our #terror

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#admit #another #common #common sense #fails

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#common #glory #holy #indeed #into

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

#every #fancied #forward #governments #keep

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#also #biologists #build #classify #common

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#around #box #common #crash #days

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#bind #common #common sense #heed #heritage