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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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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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"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
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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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"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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"Common sense often makes good law."
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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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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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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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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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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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"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
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
Age
"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
Integrity
"Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?"
Love
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
Age
"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."
Soul
"And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer."
Emotion
"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."
Baby
"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"
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