Sense Quotes
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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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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 think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.
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I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
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It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about.
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We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
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Never lose your sense of the superficial.
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Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.
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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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When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.
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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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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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Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
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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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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.
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If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.
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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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We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
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It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.
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The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
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Behind their lively, searching eyes one senses a doubting, a contemplative personality, always trying to make sense out of a puzzling world.
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My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.
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When a “founding father’s” remarks about “liberty” don’t seem to make sense, substitute the word “property” and they do.
