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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
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The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called conditioning. In operant conditioning we strengthen an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.
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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
Cosmos (1980) -
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
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The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364 -
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And, though the sound were parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40.
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