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• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  Frances Wright

  Women, House, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

  Livy

  Time, Blessed, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXX. 42, (pp. 289-293), 1922.

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• I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.

  Dorothy Draper

  Dog, Believe, Heart

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• So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, Perfectly Good, Ideas

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• Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Husband, Real, Thinking

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• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Laughing, Doe

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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• People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  People, Accomplishment, Goal

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• My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

  Jack Dreyfus

  Funny, Money, Humorous

  Jack Dreyfus (2001). “A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked”, p.12, Lantern Books

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• I like spontaneity and intelligence in a girl. Nothing is more attractive to me than someone who has a good sense of who she is and can hold her own in a conversation.

  Nathan Adrian

  Girl, Spontaneity, Attractive

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• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Believe, Europe

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• While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

  Russell Baker

  Men, People, Life Is

  "So This Is Depravity and Other Observations". Book by Russell Baker, 1980.

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• If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Play, Laughing

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

  James Mackintosh

  Inspiring, Maxims, Nations

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 638-39, quoted on the title page of Broom's Legal Maxims (1911), 1922.

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• A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Compassion, Church

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• Not until man is willing to recognize his animal nature - in the good sense of the word - will he create genuine culture.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Animal, Men, Culture

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
  These are the sinews of good sense.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Doubt, Sober

  "Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book compiled by Kate Louise Roberts, www.bartleby.com. 1922.

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• There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Fun, Sarcasm, Littles

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• The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Pay, Pleasure, Spoil

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• To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development.

  Ken Wilber

  Mean, Self, Intelligence

  Ken Wilber (2007). “Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Foolish Man, Fools And Foolishness

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• The situation now is not easy. But I believe in the good sense of the Japanese people.

  Katsuya Okada

  Believe, People, Easy

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• Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Laughter, Silly

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.145, OUP Oxford

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• I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Men, Half

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.183

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• If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

  Denis Diderot

  Justice, Phrases, Enthusiasm

  Denis Diderot (1963). “Diderot, interpreter of nature: selected writings”

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