"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."

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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."

William S. Burroughs, American Novelist

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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'"

Thomas J. Sargent, American Economist

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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"If you sense there must be more, there is more."

Alan Cohen, American Businessman

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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."

Atom Egoyan, Canadian Director

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"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier

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"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."

Robert Creeley, American Poet

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"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."

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"Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him."

"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

"In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'"

"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

"If you sense there must be more, there is more."

"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."

"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."

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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."

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"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."

"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."

"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."

"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

"A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation."