Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
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GRETCHEN CLEARWATER He has been doing so at regular intervals and has miserably failed every time.
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JAMES PERRY The state has failed miserably here. The city has failed to carry out its responsibility. So, you ar...
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TINA BROWN There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.
KRISTIN ACCIPITER If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
SAM RAYBURN This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
TOM DASCHLE I failed miserably at trying not to fall in love with you.
…
I failed first.
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RAHM EMANUEL saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war.
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J.J. BOWLERS Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
ELIYAHU GOLDRATT We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,
TIMOTHY J. ROEMER Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?
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GEORGE GALLUP The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone wh...
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EPHDAN You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.
HOMER SIMPSON For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perf...
BARNEY FRANK You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.
ANONYMOUS You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
MATT GROENING You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.
DAN CASTELLANETA In America there are so many ways to make a living that a man usually doesn't turn to politics until...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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GABRIELLE GIFFORDS I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
WAYNE BRADY You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million mile...
GARY VAYNERCHUK Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so...
ALLEN WEST It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for ...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS We did everything possible to prevent this happening but we have failed miserably.
KOICHIRO MATSUURA He's so calm, sometimes I wonder if he even has a pulse.
BRENDAN WITT I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense...
WILLIAM GOLDING We had our first post-9/11 task and we've miserably failed.
TIM ROEMER I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Alas, common sense is not so common.
MUHAMMED HAIDER It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE There have been many merit pay plans over the years. Those that were funded failed miserably when th...
YVONNE LYONS It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike...
THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of
faces there should be none alike.
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ROBERT BEA The stars are out tonight. All of them.
JAMES HALAT But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything?
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YUKIO MISHIMA There is a chalk outline being drawn around common sense, and most people cannot even identify the v...
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CHARLES WILSON The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tr...
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DAVY JONES Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
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SAYED KASHUA I think it's just common sense. It's why people go to Sam's Club.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.
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MARIANA FULGER A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the tru...
JOSEF PIEPER Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can'...
RICHARD BACH Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good stor...
SUSAN ORLEAN It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the ve...
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RUSSELL PEARCE America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and th...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is...
HENRYK SKOLIMOWSKI I think we've clearly been the catalyst that has sparked the national debate. That's been our goal, ...
CHRIS SIMCOX Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols...
VIKRAM SETH She is my conscience. She has lots of common sense.
HECTOR VENEGAS Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plu...
ERIK PAULSEN The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are gettin...
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KATHY PATTERSON The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation ...
IAN SMITH I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else g...
JERRY LEWIS I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention progra...
SOLOMON ORTIZ When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.
CRAIG BRUCE [Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
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DADA BHAGWAN We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
RAY BRADBURY Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.
ROMAN POLANSKI He who must travel happily must travel light.
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GREG LUKIANOFF Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
LYN KAROL I have just lost my patience with the criminals and the thugs and the sexual predators. One thing I'...
DAVE NABITY Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited
GEORGE SANTAYANA The way America sees Mexico, if they have any sense of it, is like Taco Bell. Our countries are neig...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I wonder what marriage does to a woman. I worry about role playing and loss of confidence and having...
ANNA JOHNSON A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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JON PORTER There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t...
JON ORINGER Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po...
JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house...
JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl...
JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,...
JON SCIESZKA Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the...
JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic....
JON LOVITZ Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn...
JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ...
JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance.
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