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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.: Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.": Stephen Crane
...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), (Diary, 1786)
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?: Jean Kerr
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.: Harold S. Kushner
I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course.: Baldrick - Sense and Senility
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.: Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_

Results from Poor Man's College:

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
Good taste is the flower of good sense.: A. Poincelot

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