Quotes with common-sense

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  • Carol Gilligan Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Voltaire Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Karl Kraus Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Matthew Hale Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
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  • Billy Graham Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Paul Goodman Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Campbell Brown Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Common people do not pray; they only beg.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Common sense is calculation applied to life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Giambattista Vico Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Voltaire Common sense is not so common.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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