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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

~Aristotle

Topics: Benevolent Better Business Clearly Common Create Disposition Legislator Men Private Property Should Special Use

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Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Back Child Common Cut Done Fairly Get Had Half His Home House Many Marriage Needs Pattern Redefining Rest Sometimes Woman Women

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People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

~Arlo Guthrie

Topics: About Belly Common Common Man Just Lead Make Man Order People Songs Talking Uncommon Were Woody

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Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

~Arlo Guthrie

Topics: Common Conservatives Everywhere Go Interesting Kinds Liberals Me Old People Real See Shows Something Those I See

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There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.

~Armie Hammer

Topics: Armageddon Back Basically Because Coming Common Day Decisions Deep Imagination Impact Know Like Making Movies Out Outbreak Reason Remember Same Snow Snow White Strain Studios Then Things Those Two White You

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I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers.

~Arnaud Desplechin

Topics: About Actually Also Boy Common Complex Confirmed Discovered Expecting Experience Fathers First First Time Freud Girl Had Little Little Girls Loved Mothers My Own Own Read Remember Time Who You I Remember

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The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

~Arpad Busson

Topics: Anything Billionaire Common Common Good Good His Interested Money Not Interested Person Who

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Balanced Common Objective Organization Success Towards Working

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Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Action Address Carefully Common Confidence Consider Despair Haste Instead Let Us Mood Must Our Ourselves Pause Position Quiet Resolution Sober Survey Take Task Then Therefore Us Without

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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Aim Become Been Common Destructive End Forever Moreover Potentially Put Should Statesmen Terrible Thing War

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