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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

After Attributed Been Essentially
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Built Contract Did Government
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It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.

Clown Job Sense Theatrical
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

After Coming Family Frozen
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How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Employ Fit Forever Good
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People will try to tell you who you are. Don’t believe that nonsense.

People Nonsense Believe Who you are
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The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

Better Challenge Community Evoke
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

Tough Believe Sense Strongly
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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...

Nobody Author Producer Own life
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Absolutely Does Just Like
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Adolescence Alone Always Had
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Common sense Seeing things Doing Ought to
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I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

Always Confident Definitely Feeling
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Fiction Make Sense Stranger
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When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

About Certain Repose Sense
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Catastrophe Clinical Conversations Days
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Last Refuge Sense Sleeping
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My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Actually Attention Been Has-Been
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This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Activity Challenging Get Humans
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I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Ancestors Built Decent Deep
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I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

End Had Never Retirement
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Animal Being Gregarious Human
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Cherished Little Nonsense Wisest
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Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence

America History Impotence Individual
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Existence Give Making Myth
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Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Am Answering Give Identity
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Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

Afraid Dependence Existence Far
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

After Cannot Certain Itself
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Identity Idle Personal Requires
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I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

Ate Because Birth Candidate
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Common Love Occasional Passion
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Person Sense Humor Springs
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Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Big Boy Disadvantage Entering
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Across America Been Came
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Schoolmasters Everybody Employ Intelligent
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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

Act Makes Sense Something
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Philosophy One century Common sense
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Actor Actually Around Because
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I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

Any Director Filmmaker Had
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Environments Escapism Fantasy Fascinated
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So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in that world.

About Create Creating Detailed
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I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

About Being Case Destroyed
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Idealism Sense Some Sustain
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No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

Senseless Choose War Peace
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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Mingle Little folly Wisdom Pleasant
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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The best way to respond to this pandemic is to maintain a sense of calm and hope. It can be difficult with the influx of daily news that causes anxiety. But we must, for our own sanity. Listen to what the experts tell you, not those who fear monger. Above all, trust the Almighty.

Best way Pandemic Maintain Calm
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All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.

Combinations Common Expense Individuals
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Against Always Apparently Artifice
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