Quotes with common-sense

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  • A. E. van Vogt In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bernard Crick In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Nigel Farage In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Constance Rourke In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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  • Bernard Bailyn In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 173
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Edmund Burke In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Candice Glover In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • Plutarch In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bill Murray In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Ansel Adams In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Albert Bandura In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Ben Marcus In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Billy Bragg In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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