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Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Pearl Zhu

Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways. — Pearl Zhu

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Ayn Rand

Don't set out to raze all shrines, you'll frighten men. enshrine mediocrity-and the shrines are razed. — Ayn Rand

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Charles Spurgeon

The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men's testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead. — Charles Spurgeon

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Kate Chopin

I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869. — Kate Chopin

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas Paine

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense. — Thomas Paine

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Joseph J. Ellis

Eager to oppose Thomas Paine's prescription in Common Sense for a huge single-house legislature that purportedly embodied the will of "the people" in its purest form. For Adams, "the people" was a more complicated, multivoiced, hydra-headed thing that had to be enclosed within different chambers. — Joseph J. Ellis

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Edmund Morgan

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence. — Edmund Morgan

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Cynthia Palmer

Opium was decadent. Opium was for grandfathers. — Cynthia Palmer

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas Paine

Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us. — Thomas Paine

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Jack White

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written. — Jack White

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Patti Smith

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong. — Patti Smith

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas Paine

In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day. — Thomas Paine

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas A. Edison

In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again. — Thomas A. Edison

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas Paine

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. — Thomas Paine

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas Paine

But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. — Thomas Paine

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Kate Bolick

The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a gift. A world was waiting to welcome me if I was willing to enter it alone. — Kate Bolick

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Mike Crapo

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain. — Mike Crapo

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Miriam Toews

It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really. — Miriam Toews

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Charlotte Shane

I'm sorry,' I told him one night over dinner. I was genuinely embarrassed, not least of all because I was sure I'd said it before. 'Sometimes I love you too much to listen to what you're saying. — Charlotte Shane

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Harvey MacKay

The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, very careful. You can't afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire. — Harvey MacKay

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Sarina Bowen

What kind of city doesn't have a football team? Explain that to me, Wes." "They do have one," I point out. "The Argonauts." Richard narrows his eyes. "Is it an NFL team?" "Well, no, it's CFL, but - " "Then they don't have a team," he says firmly. I stifle a laugh. — Sarina Bowen

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas Paine

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion. — Thomas Paine

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Deyth Banger

For god sake, open your eyes...the truth is crimes are real... the trouble is real... the horror is real... OPEN THE FUCKING EYES, you have freedom of speech, freedom do go to jail... My favourite characters are this in the jail!

If you ask me with what I will open my eyes, my answer is with the critical edition

The Leuchter Reports: Critical Edition
by Fred A. Leuchter, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, The Common Sense by Thomas Paine — Deyth Banger

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Thomas Paine

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. — Thomas Paine

Common Sense Thomas Paine Quotes By Patrick Lencioni

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal. — Patrick Lencioni