Quotes with common-sense

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  • Sidney Madwed Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Stephen R. Covey Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • George Gallup The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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  • Walter Lippmann The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Billy Zane The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Sophocles There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Dame Barbara Ward We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that ''we choose death.''
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  • Booker T. Washington We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Washington Carver When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Edith Warton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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  • Ben Shapiro 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Saki 'The man is a common murderer'.
    'A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook'.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Ben Jonson 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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