"any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and"
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James Reston
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"to open all the ears - which we call senses - of a man, so that he can..."
Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote
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William Gilmore Simms
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"...Cancer won?t bestow a sense of humor on someone who doesn?t have it, but..."
Full 'Betty Rollin' Quote
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Betty Rollin
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"Baby: A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
Full 'Ronald Knox' Quote
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Ronald Knox
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"more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
Full 'E. B. White' Quote
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E. B. White
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"A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the..."
Full 'Billy Graham' Quote
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Billy Graham
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"the want of sensibility as the want of sense."
Full 'Anna Jameson' Quote
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Anna Jameson
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""That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."..."
Full 'Stephen Crane' Quote
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Stephen Crane
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"worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has..."
Full 'Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe' Quote
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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"perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God."
Full 'Anne Rice' Quote
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Anne Rice
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"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted"
Full 'Henry Ward Beecher' Quote
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Henry Ward Beecher
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"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with..."
Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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"A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a..."
Full 'Thornton Wilder' Quote
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Thornton Wilder
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"kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to..."
Full 'Jessamyn West' Quote
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Jessamyn West
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"our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the..."
Full 'George Moore' Quote
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George Moore
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"a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty...."
Full 'Anton Chekhov' Quote
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Anton Chekhov
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"attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most..."
Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote
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Thomas Jefferson
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"truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
Full 'Thomas Huxley' Quote
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Thomas Huxley
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"works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by..."
Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote
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W. H. Auden
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"not invent human rights. In a very real sense. . . human rights invented"
Full 'Jimmy Carter' Quote
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Jimmy Carter
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"ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe..."
Full 'John Updike' Quote
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John Updike
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"valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense...."
Full 'Vernon Howard' Quote
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Vernon Howard
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"an irrational premise.... It makes no sense, but everything that follows..."
Full 'Jane Haddam' Quote
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Jane Haddam
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"compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?..."
Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote
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Louis Aragon
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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."
Full 'Voltaire' Quote
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Voltaire
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"velvety- smooth fantasies that envelop the senses and stir the passions...."
Full 'Judith Olney' Quote
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Judith Olney
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"Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason."
Full 'Mikhail Bakunin' Quote
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Mikhail Bakunin
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"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It..."
Full 'Billy Graham' Quote
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Billy Graham
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"Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and..."
Full 'Paul Goodman' Quote
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Paul Goodman
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"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different..."
Full 'Clive James' Quote
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Clive James
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"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not"
Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote
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W. Somerset Maugham
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"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
Full 'Edgar Watson Howe' Quote
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Edgar Watson Howe
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."
Full 'Victor Hugo' Quote
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Victor Hugo
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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as"
Full 'Josh Billings' Quote
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Josh Billings
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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as"
Full 'Henry Wheeler Shaw' Quote
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Henry Wheeler Shaw
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"Common Sense is the medicine of master workman."
Full 'Peter Latham' Quote
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Peter Latham
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"Common sense is very uncommon."
Full 'Horace Greeley' Quote
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Horace Greeley
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"tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self...."
Full 'Erich Fromm' Quote
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Erich Fromm
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"positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success,..."
Full 'John Keats' Quote
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John Keats
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"to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion."
Full 'Heinrich Heine' Quote
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Heinrich Heine
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"himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult..."
Full 'Rene Descartes' Quote
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Rene Descartes
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"For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall..."
Full 'Rachel Carson' Quote
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Rachel Carson
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"From my dad I think I got a great sense of humor about life and sort of an..."
Full 'Dennis Quaid' Quote
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Dennis Quaid
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"things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more..."
Full 'Lauren Bacall' Quote
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Lauren Bacall
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"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that"
Full 'Max Beerbohm' Quote
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Max Beerbohm
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"Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are..."
Full 'Nancy Lopez' Quote
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Nancy Lopez
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"up on a farm you definitely get a real sense of the cycle of life and there..."
Full 'Holly Hunter' Quote
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Holly Hunter
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"being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be..."
Full 'Sarah Bernhardt' Quote
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Sarah Bernhardt
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"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
Full 'W C Fields' Quote
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W C Fields
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"adore the buzz with acting. There is a sense of instant gratification when..."
Full 'Jerry Hall' Quote
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Jerry Hall
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"the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is..."
Full 'Pablo Casals' Quote
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Pablo Casals
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"by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation...."
Full 'Hillary Rodham Clinton' Quote
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor...."
Full 'William Gilmore Simms' Quote
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William Gilmore Simms
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"the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has..."
Full 'Galileo' Quote
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Galileo
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"do a lot more than educate a person's senses."
Full 'Grace Paley' Quote
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Grace Paley
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"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
Full 'Edward Albee' Quote
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Edward Albee
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"the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold,..."
Full 'Millicent Fenwick' Quote
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Millicent Fenwick
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"have said. It is time for us to regain a sense of action in the service of..."
Full 'Jacques Chirac' Quote
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Jacques Chirac
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"adhere to a motto that makes a bit of sense to me and that is: "That..."
Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote
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Sandra Bullock
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"I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not..."
Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote
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Barbara Deming
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"or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."
Full 'William Thackery' Quote
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William Thackery
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"anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of..."
Full 'Emma Thompson' Quote
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Emma Thompson
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"married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do,..."
Full 'Neil Diamond' Quote
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Neil Diamond
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"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to..."
Full 'Samuel Goldwyn' Quote
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Samuel Goldwyn
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"imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice -- they all make..."
Full 'Edna Ferber' Quote
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Edna Ferber
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"character. In Appalachia, there's a very great sense of kinship with the..."
Full 'Sharyn Mccrumb' Quote
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Sharyn Mccrumb
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"lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process...."
Full 'Barack Obama' Quote
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Barack Obama
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"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of..."
Full 'Sally Field' Quote
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Sally Field
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"Reaching under the fence, as I try to make sense... in the ruins......"
Full 'Melissa Etheridge' Quote
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Melissa Etheridge
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"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the..."
Full 'Rachel Carson' Quote
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Rachel Carson
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"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
Full 'Sam Rayburn' Quote
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Sam Rayburn
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"If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility."
Full 'Robert Musil' Quote
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Robert Musil
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"If we study processes of sense perception, thinking, learning, cognition,..."
Full 'Thom Thompson' Quote
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Thom Thompson
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"in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the..."
Full 'Margaret Mead' Quote
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Margaret Mead
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"nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you..."
Full 'Timothy Leary' Quote
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Timothy Leary
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"season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are..."
Full 'George Eliot' Quote
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George Eliot
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"guess I've got some shoes to fill in that sense of it -- following A.J.,..."
Full 'Brady Quinn' Quote
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Brady Quinn
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"to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to..."
Full 'Horace Walpole' Quote
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Horace Walpole
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"In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any..."
Full 'E. B. White' Quote
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E. B. White
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"In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to..."
Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote
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Alfred Kazin
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"In fact, to this very day, common sense in religion is rare, and we are too..."
Full 'Dorothy Day' Quote
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Dorothy Day
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"In its larger sense as a philosophy of life, we have generally associated..."
Full 'John King Fairbank' Quote
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John King Fairbank
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"In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who..."
Full 'Florence King' Quote
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Florence King
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"a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a..."
Full 'Ansel Adams' Quote
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Ansel Adams
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"greater one's science, the deeper the sense of mystery."
Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote
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Vladimir Nabokov
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"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific"
Full 'Charles Lindbergh' Quote
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Charles Lindbergh
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"strong, and invigorating; it fills my senses. Lick annd lick again. Hair..."
Full 'Unknown Source' Quote
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Unknown Source
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"contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility...."
Full 'Rachel Carson' Quote
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Rachel Carson
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"exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it...."
Full 'Nelson A Rockefeller' Quote
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Nelson A Rockefeller
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"not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor...."
Full 'Max Eastman' Quote
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Max Eastman
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"religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty...."
Full 'Ilka Chase' Quote
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Ilka Chase
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"It just lacks common sense that you would work for 6 months for no money!"
Full 'Judge Judy' Quote
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Judge Judy
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"spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began..."
Full 'Gloria Naylor' Quote
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Gloria Naylor
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"right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both."
Full 'Jeannette Rankin' Quote
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Jeannette Rankin
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"seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time."
Full 'Titus Livy' Quote
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Titus Livy
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"except the observation that they have no sense of humor...."
Full 'Steve Allen' Quote
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Steve Allen
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"Money is like a sixth sense with- out which you cannot make a complete use"
Full 'W. Somerset Maugham' Quote
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W. Somerset Maugham
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"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to"
Full 'Dean Acheson' Quote
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Dean Acheson
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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
Full 'Isaac Asimov' Quote
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Isaac Asimov
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"women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've..."
Full 'Anna Quindlen' Quote
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Anna Quindlen
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"and the clergy than reason and common sense...."
Full 'Voltaire' Quote
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Voltaire
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"words that equal what we are given by the senses...."
Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote
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Hannah Arendt
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"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor..."
Full 'Alice James' Quote
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Alice James
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"as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather..."
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Edward Albee
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"People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot..."
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Dorothy Day
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"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their"
Full 'Thomas Mann' Quote
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Thomas Mann
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"Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more..."
Full 'Osho' Quote
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Osho
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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
Full 'William Osler' Quote
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William Osler
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"deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and..."
Full 'H. Ross Perot' Quote
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H. Ross Perot
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"personal reason, and you don't have a sense of it being received by anyone...."
Full 'James Taylor' Quote
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James Taylor
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"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity..."
Full 'David Sarnoff' Quote
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David Sarnoff
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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
Full 'Euripides' Quote
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Euripides
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"cattle. More money and he will have no sense of parental or individual..."
Full 'Gary Player' Quote
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Gary Player
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"books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great books are..."
Full 'Sir Arthur Keith' Quote
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Sir Arthur Keith
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"concentration camp. And I've never lost that sense. It was not fate--not,..."
Full 'Maurice Sendak' Quote
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Maurice Sendak
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"America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to..."
Full 'George Gallup' Quote
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George Gallup
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"cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence..."
Full 'Vladimir Nabokov' Quote
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Vladimir Nabokov
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"reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense."
Full 'Tom Clancy' Quote
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Tom Clancy
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"freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
Full 'Matthew Arnold' Quote
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Matthew Arnold
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"have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each..."
Full 'Meryl Streep' Quote
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Meryl Streep
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"heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people..."
Full 'Elizabeth Bowen' Quote
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Elizabeth Bowen
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"reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your..."
Full 'Jim Morrison' Quote
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Jim Morrison
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"life. But in the truest and most profound sense, it is an escape not from..."
Full 'James Ramsey Ullman' Quote
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James Ramsey Ullman
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"pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between"
Full 'Carl Gustav Jung' Quote
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Carl Gustav Jung
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"pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between"
Full 'Carl Gustav Jung' Quote
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Carl Gustav Jung
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"that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee..."
Full 'David Mamet' Quote
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David Mamet
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"always been greater than the power of sense."
Full 'Joseph Conrad' Quote
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Joseph Conrad
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"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on"
Full 'Lou Holtz' Quote
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Lou Holtz
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"The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain...."
Full 'Annie Dillard' Quote
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Annie Dillard
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"wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
Full 'E. B. White' Quote
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E. B. White
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"wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
Full 'William Ralph Inge' Quote
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William Ralph Inge
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"need of less religion and more common sense."
Full 'Llewelyn Powys' Quote
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Llewelyn Powys
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"of reason to match each error of the senses."
Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote
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Louis Aragon
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"endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly..."
Full 'Sinclair Lewis' Quote
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Sinclair Lewis
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"detecting it through the radar-net of our senses...."
Full 'Diane Ackerman' Quote
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Diane Ackerman
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"There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves...."
Full 'Eric Zorn' Quote
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Eric Zorn
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"and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not..."
Full 'Dorothy Uhnak' Quote
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Dorothy Uhnak
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"To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history."
Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote
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Alfred Kazin
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"intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers..."
Full 'James Garfield' Quote
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James Garfield
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"We live on the leash of our sense"
Full 'Diane Ackerman' Quote
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Diane Ackerman
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"cozy foods that promote an extraordinary sense of well-being and search out..."
Full 'Judith Olney' Quote
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Judith Olney
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"What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!"
Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote
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James Russell Lowell
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"its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning...."
Full 'Barbara De Angelis' Quote
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Barbara De Angelis
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"demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in..."
Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote
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Ayn Rand
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"earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by..."
Full 'Anna Jameson' Quote
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Anna Jameson
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"but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if..."
Full 'David Sarnoff' Quote
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David Sarnoff
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"himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor...."
Full 'E. B. White' Quote
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E. B. White
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"soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point...."
Full 'Maria Callas' Quote
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Maria Callas
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"When something doesn't make sense, it's usually because it's not true, you"
Full 'Judge Judy' Quote
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Judge Judy
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"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation."
Full 'Anne Lamott' Quote
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Anne Lamott
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"riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have..."
Full 'Lech Walesa' Quote
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Lech Walesa
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