Sense Quotes
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
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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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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.
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Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.
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It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.
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The best part about getting older is realizing that everything makes sense given enough time.
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'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.
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When we talk about decision-making, we usually focus just on the immediate payoff of a single decision—and if you treat every decision as if it were your last, then indeed only exploitation makes sense. But over a lifetime, you’re going to make a lot of decisions. And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than the considered—for many of those choices, particularly earlier in life.
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Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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It seems to me to make as much sense to talk about literature as a large-scale human phenomenon without bringing in evolution as it does to engage in cosmology while you're thinking the universe is still geocentric.
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When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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It doesn't make any sense to me to start on the interior of the forest if you haven't first protected around the areas where the communities are.
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My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.
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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
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I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.
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I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us.
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A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.
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That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.
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The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.
