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- I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
- Charles Mackay
- A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
- For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
- Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
- Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
- Ellis Peters
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