Quotes with common-sense

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  • Britney Spears If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense, and she knows what she likes.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
    A Distant Mirror Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Brit Hume If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Barack Obama If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Angela Merkel If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Robertson Davies If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Wayne Dyer If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Margaret Mead If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Al Goldstein If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Anthony Robbins If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Casey Wilson If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Alan Cohen If you sense there must be more, there is more.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Frank Herbert If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Anthony Burgess If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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