- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sense Quotes
Sometimes clarity comes from the simplest observation.
This page brings together quotes where 'sense' means very different things - the plain wisdom kids sometimes show, an inborn pull toward wonder, and a poet's near-literal feeling for nature. Pair it with Common Sense for a more practical angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
- Original
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.
- Nov 07, 2020