Quotes with sense

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  • Assata Shakur I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 183
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Edith Wharton I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
    Galileo Galilei
    Italian physicist (1564 - 1642)
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  • Anne Enright I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead.
    De samenkomst (2010) 66
    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Roy Lichtenstein I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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  • A. E. Housman I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Little Richard I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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  • Hanif Kureishi I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Louise Erdrich I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alice James I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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