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• I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

  Cornelia Funke

  Stories, Pages, Inkheart

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• Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

  Jane Jacobs

  Sweet, Valentine, Play

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.112, Vintage

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• Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Judgement, Weight

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.78, OUP Oxford

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• There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, People, Musician

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• A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Circles, Envy

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.367, Random House

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• I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me." I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Falling In Love, Sigh Of Relief, Promise

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Walk To Remember”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Editing, Cameras

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 07, 2011.

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Art, Textiles, Lovers

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• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Stupidity, Fool, Honest

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Denial, Littles

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

  Carmen Electra

  Heart, Want, Toes

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• I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Outkast, Humour

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• I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.88, Harvard University Press

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• Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

  Al Franken

  Bob, Be Kind, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. November, 1996.

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• There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

  David Hume

  Learning, Men, Numbers

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.347

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• Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

  Rashida Jones

  Smile, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  Jack Kemp

  Football, Cutting, Perspective

  "Jack F. Kemp", www.nytimes.com.

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• People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

  Ken Kesey

  Love, Philosophy, Educational

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Design, Sublime, Genius

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• Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Lying, Differences, Taste

  "Of Opinions". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agreement, Opinion, Share

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• I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Night

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• It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

  Frederick Sanger

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

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• I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

  Victoria Beckham

  Real, Men, Shoes

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