"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."

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Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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."

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Lee R. Raymond, American Businessman

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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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"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

Piers Anthony, English Writer

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"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."

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"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."

Jane Roberts, American Author

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"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."

John Polkinghorne, British Physicist

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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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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

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

"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."

"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."

"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."

"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."

"Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand."

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

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"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."