Quotes 241 till 260 of 402.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
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Science is simply common sense at its best-that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
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Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
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Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
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Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
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