Sense Quotes
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Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.
Bruce Bartlett
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We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.
Negin Farsad
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
Sean Penn
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Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.
Faris Badwan
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Today's work, I don't know it just doesn't make sense, a lot of it. It's just guns and sex and more guns and more sex. You say to yourself, when the hell are you gonna get down to the nitty-gritty and do something good so people can be entertained? I mean if they call this entertainment.
Ernest Borgnine
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To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Emil Cioran
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I guess if you’re a musician the way you think and feel is eventually going to come out of you. I like so many styles of music that it just made sense to try to synthesize all of them.
Southside Johnny
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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
George Eliot
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The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.
Heidi Julavits
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"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.
Warren Brown
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The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”
Carrie Jones
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An unexplicable sense of happiness
Carrie Fletcher
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Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor.
Stephen Henderson
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It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.
Bryan Kest
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When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
Evan Longoria
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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
Lewis Carroll
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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside
Sarah Dessen
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When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.
Nora Volkow
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A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
Raymond E. Feist
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
Margaret Mitchell
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Our sense of Self depends on being able to organize our memories into a coherent whole.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
Jane Austen
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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
Norton Juster