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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.: An Wang
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.: Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975), Our Town
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .: Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC)
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.: Eric Lustbader, The Kaisho
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.: La Rochefoucauld
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.: Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946)
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.: Myron Tribus
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.: Søren Kierkegaard

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