“Common is overrated.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
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“The heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.”
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“A class is a set of objects that share a common structure and a common behavior”
Source: Object-oriented design: With Applications, (1991), p. 513
p. 50 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zsm3TLe1cAUC&pg=PA50
The Expansion of England (1883)
1860s, On Democratic Government (1864)
Context: But the rebellion continues, and, now that the election is over, may not all have a common interest to reunite in a common effort to save our common country? For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way. So long as I have been here, I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom. While I am duly sensible to the high compliment of a re-election, and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God, for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed by the result.
“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
“If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.”
IV, 4 (as translated by ASL Farquharson)
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
Context: If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.