"Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded."

-- Thomas Nagel

#Common Sense Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
“The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.”
“I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.”
“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.230, Penguin
“I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.”
“Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.”
“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”
“Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.”

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