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“You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk”

Book:Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

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Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai is an Indian-British author known for her unique literary style and profound social insight. Her works often explore themes of family, identity, and class, and are highly appreciated by readers. more

“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left — sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.”

Common Sense Sanity Fanatics Revolt

Book:The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Source: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this is a fault of our own vocabulary. We don’t have a very good vocabulary to describe what others species do to us, because we think we’re the only species that really does anything.”

Health Green Common Sense Sustainability Nutrition Diet

Author:Michael Pollan

“That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.”

Common Sense Afterlife

Book:Lectures on Literature

Source: Lectures on Literature

“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous society, and all his life could be as open and sunny as the square beneath him. He had, on the other other hand, only to keep his antiquated honour, and be delivered inch by inch into the power of this great enemy of mankind, whose very intellect was a torture-chamber. Whenever he looked down into the square he saw the comfortable policeman, a pillar of common sense and common order. Whenever he looked back at the breakfast-table he saw the President still quietly studying him with big, unbearable eyes.”

Honor Common Sense Anarchy

Book:The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Source: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end. ~Dr. Barron”

Common Sense Madmen

Book:Destination unknown

Source: Destination unknown

“Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.”

Common Sense Power Generation

Book:Out of the Dark

Source: Out of the Dark

“Look up from your gypsy tea cups, outside your make believe starcharts, shake off the spell of hollow algorithms, reality speaks through human tears.”

Ignorance Scientist Common Sense Reasoning Humanist Superstition Rational Thinking Pseudoscience New Age Movement Rationalist

Book:Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

Common Sense

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Common sense is our seventh sense that is guiding our personality. It embraces all other secured senses growing in the shadow of humbleness without being dissipated by disputes, showdowns, or down-right self-righteousness. ("Wit of the staircase")”

Personality Common Sense Disputes Humbleness Self Righteousness Showdown Seventh Sense Wit Of The Staircase

Author:Erik Pevernagie

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