#sensible

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. ↗

— Jane Austen

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not. ↗

— William James

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So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. ↗

— David Knopfler

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