Quotes 181 till 200 of 1001.
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Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
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Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
The life of reason (1906) -
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
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Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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