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“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”

World Sound Common Four Wonderful Adventure Wall Research Fellows Wide Common Sense Realms Venture Respectable Homely Four Walls

Book:Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.”

Age Faces Common Four Wall Plenty Prisoner Sixty Four Walls

Author:Albert Kesselring

“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

World Use Certain Hours Differences Common Four Minutes This World Twenties Seconds Sixty Sixty Minutes

Author:Lou Holtz

“My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.”

Children Running Mother Parent Views Common Issues Four Fishes Common Sense Shops Sole Chips Fish And Chips

Author:Pauline Hanson

“Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.”

“An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”

World May Persons Has Beens Artist Common Four Remains Common Sense Angle Triangles Cornered

Author:Soseki Natsume

“Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.”

“I reckon that for all the use it has been to science about four-fifths of my time has been wasted, and I believe this to be the common lot of people who are not merely playing follow-my-leader in research.”

People Believe Has Beens Use I Believe Common Leader Four Research My Time

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.”

Thinking Knows Two Stories Three Sides Common Four Missing Focused Narrative Crucial Margins Unfolding One Direction Missing Something

Author:Sarah Stillman