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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  A. A. Milne

  Want, Praise

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• A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

  Oleg Romanishin

  Success, Winning, Self

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• He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Children, Men

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• Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

  George Washington

  Eye, Character, Men

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94

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• If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

  John H. Vandenberg

  Men, Self, Doubt

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Long Ago, Civilization

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• I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

  Johnny Carson

  Life, Trying, Care

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
  mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

  Vernon Howard

  Years, Feet, Thousand

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• Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

  Herman Melville

  Asylums

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.41

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• Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

  Stella McCartney

  Wish, Sometimes

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• The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pleasure, Delicate, Promoting

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• I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That was not the idea. The idea was to interpret science sensibly, with good proportion, good balance and good lighting, so we could understand it.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Ideas, People

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• It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Writing, Energy, Neurosis

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• The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

  Betty Dodson

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.

  Claire Weekes

  Stupid, Two, People

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• The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Fall, Aggravation, Firsts

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Shy, Gains

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2011.

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• Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?

  Jamie Oliver

  Children, Meat, Mouths

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• Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

  Roger Ebert

  Religious, War, Paris

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• True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

  John Tillotson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Imperfection

  John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.412

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• If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Normal, Stomach

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• No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Advice, Bees, Subjects

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wings, People, Four

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

  Alan Seeger

  Beauty, Sweet, Light

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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