Quotes with common-sense

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  • Bruce Coville Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bill Brandt Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bradley Joseph Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
    On composing Indie Journal Interview
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Timothy Leary My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
    Timothy Leary
    American psychologist and writer (1920 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Walker My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Katharine Hepburn My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Steven Wright My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Brit Hume My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Salman Rushdie Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Dean Acheson Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Winston Churchill Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • John Locke New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Anna Quindlen New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Adam Smith No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Michael Moore No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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