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“FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to”
George Seaton
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”
Blaise Pascal
“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.”
Winnie the Pooh
“A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable”
Billy Graham
