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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."
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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
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"Common sense often makes good law."
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"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
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"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."
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"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
Happiness
"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
Woman
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