#commons

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics. ↗

— Theresa May

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Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#better #better place #bush #code #commonsense

Whenever there is love beyond boundaries .... Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans .... Nevertheless, a Trial is born .... You pass that trial, sacred you shall be .... if you don't, your are immortal !!!! ↗

— M.W.Latif

#intimate #joy #life #life-experience #life-philosophy

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#bars #certainly #close #commons #could

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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