"Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions."

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Source : M. M. Kaye (2015). “Shadow of the Moon”, p.163, St. Martin's Griffin

M.M. Kaye

#Common Sense Quotes #Adherence Quotes #Common Quotes

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015
“In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed.”
“I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.”
“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
“A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.”
“It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.”
“I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.”
“We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.”

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