Quotes with common-sense

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  • Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John MacNaughton Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
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  • James Mackintosh Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
    James Mackintosh
    British politician (1765 - 1832)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aristophanes Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
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  • Barry Zito Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Marianne Williamson Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Kingsley Amis Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
    Stanley And The Women (2011) 266
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Brit Marling Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aphra Behn Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Albert Camus More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Kofi Annan More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
    Faceboek (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Henderson Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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