Sense Quotes
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
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I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.
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Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the death of companionship?
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To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.
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A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
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I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.
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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.
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Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!
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Today I've written to the EU Commission urging an end to the "use-it-or-lose-it" rule that's leading to 'ghost planes' during this COVID-19 outbreak. Temporary relief now makes both environmental and financial sense.
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Passion should always trump common sense.
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The view of nature, which is the immediate object of sense, is very imperfect, and of small extent; but, by the assistance of art, and the aid of reason, becomes enlarged, till it loses itself in infinity.
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There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
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Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.
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I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.
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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
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People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.
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A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.
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In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
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As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.
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I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
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So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)
