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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
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common-sense pieces furniture
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
common-sense use logic
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
common-sense people cynical
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
common-sense able bats
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
carried death dying falling inevitable meditate performed
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
carried classical music post punk
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. Yann Tiersen
care common finance health
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. Timothy Noah
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Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw. Irving Stone
car low sports transport
You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks. Inga Cadranel
car fast finds sports type
It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them. Garry Wills
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I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot. Gina Bellman
alternatives scientist century
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available. Bill Bryson
alternatives world way
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. Bruno Latour
alternatives exhausted humans
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives Abba Eban
alternatives matter investment
If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry. Arthur Scargill
alternatives classic cult
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. Bruce Campbell
alternatives development fuel
We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel. Bobby Jindal
alternatives hierarchy type
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism. Alex Kapranos
alternatives sin dies
If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you. Charles Spurgeon
alternatives hell should
It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell. C. S. Lewis