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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: buddhism, common-sense, life, zen
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Things do not change; we change.”
    ― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: common-sense, inspirational, philosophy
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison
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    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
    ― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
    tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers
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    Henry Ford
    “Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: common-sense, inspirational
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  • #7
    Stuart Chase
    “Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.”
    ― Stuart Chase, Language in Thought and Action
    tags: common-sense, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Thomas Paine
    “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
    ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
    tags: common-sense
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
    inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: common-sense
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  • #11
    Gavin de Becker
    “intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
    It is always in response to something.
    it always has your best interest at heart”
    ― Gavin De Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
    tags: common-sense, intuition
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  • #12
    Victor Hugo
    “Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: common-sense, education
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  • #13
    L.M. Montgomery
    “In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
    tags: common-sense
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  • #14
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “He who must travel happily must travel light.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    tags: a-good-idea, common-sense
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    Henry Kissinger
    “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
    tags: common-sense, peace, soldier, war
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: avarice, catholic-author, common-sense, curiosity, deadly-sins, faults, gadfly, gold, greed, greediness, greedy-people, human-nature, mammon, proverbs, riches, sad-but-true, wisdom, wise-sayings
    86 likes

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    Euripides
    “Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”
    ― Euripides
    tags: common-sense, humor, philosophical
    90 likes

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  • #18
    William Safire
    “Never assume the obvious is true.”
    ― William Safire
    tags: assumption, common-sense, obviousness, truth
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  • #19
    “Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.”
    ― Mike Ditka
    tags: common-sense
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: common-sense, religion-philosophy
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    LouAnne Johnson
    “Knowledge counts but common sense matters.”
    ― LouAnne Johnson, Dangerous Minds
    tags: common-sense, dangerous-minds, knowledge, louanne-johnson
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    Mark Twain
    “At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.”
    ― Mark Twain, Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands: Hawaii in the 1860s
    tags: common-sense, humor
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Common sense is as rare as genius.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: common-sense
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  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
    tags: common-sense, life, right
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    Paulo Coelho
    “We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
    tags: belief, common-sense, truth, universe, way-of-life
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    Malcolm Gladwell
    “People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    tags: common-sense
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    Mary Burchell
    “Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.”
    ― Mary Burchell, To Journey Together / I And My Heart / Windy Night, Rainy Morrow
    tags: common-sense
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    Nakia R. Laushaul
    “The accident in your rearview mirror already happened. The one in front of you is still preventable. Pay attention.”
    ― Nakia R. Laushaul
    tags: common-sense
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

    oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"

    she lights her cigarette with
    my lighter and looks at me
    through the flame:

    her eyes tell me.

    look," I say, "I don't think I
    can ever pay that price again.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
    158 likes



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