Quotes with sense

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  • Alexander Pope Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barney Frank For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Susan Sontag For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Berenice Bejo For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Robert Frost Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Norman O. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • James Thurber From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    British actor (1988 - )
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  • Josh Billings Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Alexander Pope Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Chapman Cohen Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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  • Lord Chesterfield Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Horace Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bhagavad Gita Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ronald Reagan Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Caitlin Rose Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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