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    J.D. Salinger
    “Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, life is hell." Nothing led up to or away from it. Alone on the page, and in the sickly stillness of the room, the words appeared to have the stature of an uncontestable, even classic indictment. X stared at the page for several minutes, trying, against heavy odds, not to be taken in. Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, "Fathers and teachers, I ponder, 'What is Hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
    tags: for-esmé-with-love-and-squalo
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Sense is never common.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: common-sense
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    Victor Hugo
    “Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: common-sense, education
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Common sense is as rare as genius.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: common-sense
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    Anthony Steyning
    “It takes centuries for sense to become common”
    ― Anthony Steyning
    tags: common-sense, inspirational, sociology
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    Oscar Wilde
    “He had that rarest of all things, common sense.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
    tags: common-sense
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    Kelly Skeete
    “I have met countless people who do not have a single droplet of common sense”
    ― Kelly Skeete, 9 Life Lessons I Wish Someone Told Me Sooner
    tags: common-sense, humor, life, people
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    Bethany L. Brand
    “When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.”
    ― Bethany L. Brand
    tags: common-sense, deception, lies, public-consciousness, truth
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    Juliet Castle
    “In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.”
    ― Juliet Castle
    tags: common-sense, nonsense, world
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    Marguerite Yourcenar
    “I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.”
    ― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
    tags: common-sense, fanaticism, jerusalem
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    Amit Kalantri
    “Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: adage, advertisement, affectation-scorn, alliterations, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, arrogance, arrogant, blog, blogging, bluster, boasting, book-writing, bumptiousness, catch-lines, catchphrases, characters, common-sense, conceit, condescension, contempt, creative-writing, disdain, egotism, essay, haughtiness, high-handedness, hubris, immodesty-loftiness, imperiousness-pride, insolence, inspirational, knowledge, lordliness, loud, mind, mocking, motivational, mouth, movie, movie-dialogue, noise, novel-writing, philosophy, pretentiousness, proverbs, public-speaking, punchline, quotes, reason, reasonable, rhetoric, sayings, scoffing-presumption, script, script-writing, scriptwriting, self-importance, sense, sense-of-superiority-pomposity, slogans, smugness-pretension, sneering, snobbery, snobbishness, social-networking, speech, speechwriting, story, superciliousness, swagger, tag-lines, vanity, wisdom, wit, witty, writing
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    Kalifer Deil
    “On Common Sense:
    Common sense isn't.
    Corollary: Uncommon sense is.”
    ― Kalifer Deil
    tags: common-sense
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    Shawn Achor
    “Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss; yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior:

    Common sense is not common action.”
    ― Shawn Achor
    tags: common-sense, hypocrisy
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