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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working, Genius, Common

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Realised, Proportion

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm

Love, Mother, Help

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Allyson Felix

Trust, God, Important

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

Humor, Him, Console

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Government

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

God, Same, Reason

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle

Power, Matter, Sensible

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society, Common, Surprise

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Wrong, Begins, Throat

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram

Great, Gratitude, Blessings

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin

Everything, Wanting

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Nothing, Common

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
John F. Kennedy

Work, Real, Him

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem

Humor, End, Laugh

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn

Stupid, Regret, Everyone

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

Character, Person, Mean

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

Funny, Humor, God

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Reading, Line

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan

Time, Game, Basketball

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Humor, Happiness, Strength

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Charlie Sheen

Love, Anger, Passion

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

Religion, Respect, Beautiful

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

Music, Good, Makes

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom, Nothing, Pride

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

Happy, Girl, Living

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
Doug Coupland

Person, Lazy, Blame

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

Him, Through, Joy

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Good, Great, Courage

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Best, Done

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