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"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
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"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable."
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"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
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"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
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"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
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"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
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"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
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"It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House."
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
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"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
Love
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
Being
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
People
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
Philosophy
"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world."
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"Faith is a state of openness or trust."
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"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
Being
"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
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"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Attitude
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
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