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• You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.

  Richard Schmid

  Cutting, Yield, Light

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• I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking

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• The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, May, Belief

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.524

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• The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Illustration, Mind, Analysis

  James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Vol. I”, p.250, Courier Corporation

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• Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

  John Hancock

  Christian, Encouragement, Order

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• If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Liars, Believe

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook E", E 59), (1775 - 1776).

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• A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

  C. S. Lewis

  Expression, People, Feelings

  'The Screwtape Letters' (1942) no. 26

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• I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Giving, Advice, Chance

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Mother, Bird

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• No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

  E. W. Howe

  Poetry, Remember, Enough

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• It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.

  Anjelica Huston

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

  Golda Meir

  Likes, Self Knowledge, Show Me

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• Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Two, Together

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• Sensible people find nothing useless.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Happiness, Success, People

  "La Fontaine's Fables" by Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, V. 19, March 31, 1668.

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• I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, World, Daring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  William Blake

  Cities, Names, Rivers

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

  Aberjhani

  Compassion, Empathy, Humanity

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• It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Real, Greek, Doubt

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• I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

  Kelly Hoppen

  Exercise, Calm, Quiet

  FaceBook post by Kelly Hoppen from Sep 20, 2013

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• Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

  Dylan Moran

  Years, Trying, Stuff

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• Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Weakness, Use

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• If it's advisable to never share own problems with others as sages say that majority don't care, then it's more sensible to never brag of own achievements as their attitude is likely to remain the same.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Achievement, Majority

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• There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 59, 1799.

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• We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Arriving, Needs, Firsts

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