| "It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." »H.L. Mencken |
| "It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett |
| "Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible." »Mary McLeod Bethune |
| "The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." »Kevin Kelly |
| "Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine |
| "Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor." »Hesiod |
| "Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack." »Anthony Robbins |
| "The single most important factor in determining the climate of an organization is the top executive." »Charles Galloway |
| "If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had." »I. F. Stone |
| "The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come." »James Whitcomb Riley |
| "School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind." »Erich Sauer |
| "Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (common sense is not so common)" »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe." »Ian J. Davenport |
| "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless." »Sinclair Lewis |
| "Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma." »E. B. White |
| "Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club." »Thomas Huxley |
| "Philosophy is the highest music." »Plato |
| "The highest of distinctions is service to others." »King George VI |
| "The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is." »John Lancaster Spalding |
| "To love is to wish the others highest good." »Nozumi Sakuma |
| "Kites rise highest against the wind---not with it." »Winston Churchill |
| "If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." »Lauren Bacall |
| "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." »Theodore Ruskin |
| "The people's good is the highest law." »Cicero |
| "The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives." »Father Andrew SDC |
| "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." »John Ruskin |
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