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common-sense important logic
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable. Bertrand Russell
common-sense common englishmen
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
common-sense brain important
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear. Diane von Furstenberg
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
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There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
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The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself. Charlie Munger
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own. Yotam Ottolenghi
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The people are very nice. They're friendly. It's like you don't meet a stranger at these events because you've got Elvis as your common ground. John Dawson
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A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class. Bruce Braley
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Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners. Dennis Ross
common discourse helps inspiring ridiculous seem stylized talking trust
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on. Noah Feldman
common differs homosexual individual knowledge natural
What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. Gore Vidal
common-threads mind young
I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind. Carrie Brownstein
common-sense important logic
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.
common-sense common englishmen
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
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If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. Gilles Villeneuve
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Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field. Zach Johnson
form invent time
I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me. William McDonough
forms future readers varied
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. Chuck Palahniuk
form helped influence matched outside weighed
The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka
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I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing. William Gibson
forms inside movies novels outside relation tend
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world. Walter Kirn