Sense Quotes
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The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.
Thomas Hobbes
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Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.
Andrew Linzey
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I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor.
Charlotte Bingham
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Passion should always trump common sense.
Robert De Niro
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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.
Darius McCrary
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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.
Francis Spufford
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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.
Jane Austen
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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.
Adam Frank
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I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.
Nick Swardson
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Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.
Judge Reinhold
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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.
Adriaan Kortlandt
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If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.
Judy Sheindlin
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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.
Elizabeth Bear
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I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.
Sean William Scott
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
George Sewell
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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.
Ivan Reitman
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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
Stephen M. Walt
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
George Bernard Shaw
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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.
Campbell McGrath
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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.
Nicholas Kroll
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A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.
Anthony of Sourozh
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Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
Ephrem the Syrian
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There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.
George William Foote