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common-sense may sound
William Kingdon Clifford We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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William Hazlitt The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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W. Somerset Maugham A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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Henry Campbell-Bannerman Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.
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Lord Chesterfield Common sense is the best sense I know of.
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Luther Burbank As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.
common-sense doctrine pascal
Eric Hoffer What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
common-sense liberty violence
Norman O. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
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Lord Shaftesbury Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.
liberty framers fragile-things
William J. Brennan The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
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Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
liberty libertarian i-can
William J. Clinton I can spend your money better than you can.
liberty never-forget destruction
William J. Clinton The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
liberty chaos dictatorship
Will Durant When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
liberty anarchy dies
Will Durant As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
liberty dictatorship license
Will Durant When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
liberty earning taxation
Robert Nozick Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.
violence knows
William H. Macy It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.
violence states active
Wendell Berry What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
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Yoko Ono All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.
violence film sexuality
Morgan Saylor I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.
violence realizing murder
Mahatma Gandhi Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?
violence dictator pity
Mahatma Gandhi The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
violence endure built
Mahatma Gandhi Nothing enduring can be built on violence.
violence world seven
Mahatma Gandhi Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.
violence public-opinion opinion
Mahatma Gandhi When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.