Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
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If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.
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... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for ...
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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