Quotes with sense

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  • John Dryden Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
    Epilogue to Constantine the Great
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Anita Roddick But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Abraham Lincoln But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ben Stein But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ian Mcewan By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Carl Sagan By far the best way I know to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night.
    The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Buzz Aldrin By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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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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  • 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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  • 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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