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Sense Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their…
- It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your…
- Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
- That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.
- She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to…
- Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.
- At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
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- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
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- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden