Quotes with common-sense

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  • Camilla Belle Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Bradley Denton How many members of the fleshbound masses do you think will listen to him? He's making sense, and they don't respond to that.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Alexander Pope How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bill Gross Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Bill Clinton I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I bring out an engineer, everything fits into a suitcase and we just record. I have so much spare time during that day that it makes sense to utilize it to do something creative like that, as opposed to just sitting around the hotel and sightseeing or something.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Lord Nelson I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
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  • Assata Shakur I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 183
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Edith Wharton I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
    Galileo Galilei
    Italian physicist (1564 - 1642)
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  • Anne Enright I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead.
    De samenkomst (2010) 66
    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Roy Lichtenstein I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • A. E. Housman I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Little Richard I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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