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en Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes
  Oscar Wilde

en Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.
  Raymond Chandler

en [NEW YORK: New York Mets manager Willie Randolph regrets that players aren't rewarded for doing the little things, such as hitting behind the runner. Randolph said he would rather have a player who hits .280 and executes the fundamentals than a .320 hitter who can't do those sort of things.] It's a different approach nowadays, ... That's why it's nice to see players like David Wright come into the system. He has that approach.

en I try to go beyond the headlines and present people as individuals - not just the Palestinians and the Israelis. Maybe my stories will help them to discover that the things we have in common outnumber the things that define our differences.

en I played with him in a tournament in Ontario, Canada. I was leading going into the last round. He was about 45 minutes late. You could do that in those days, especially name players. He did things you'd get disqualified for now. He'd call and say, 'I'll be late, but I'll be there.' Anything to draw the people and his name drew people. He was a top showman. He was always a jolly sort of a guy. I don't know anybody who didn't like him.

en [Not that the story makes any better sense.] This one, ... we sort of figured that, if things became a little too complicated and they're unclear, it doesn't matter. I mean ... this is similar to Chandler. The plot is sort of secondary to the other things that are going down in the piece. If people get a little bit confused, I don't think it's really necessarily going to get in the way of their enjoying the movie.

en Nowadays, about 70 to 80 percent of problems facing common people are solved by grass roots units. We want to allocate more of the police force to grass roots units so people's sense of security can be enhanced.

en I believe some of the trinkets and some of the things offered are either embarrassing or they're silly or they really miss the point, ... And the marketplace has to sort that out. I would hope there are enough common-sense donors out there that won't buy that kind of material or encourage it, but to the extent they do, it's the American way.

en Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too late.
  Richard Harris

en Just because I have a flair about the way I get things done doesn't mean I don't care about my community. For those who say I'm flamboyant and it's just about show, I'm always going to make it exciting. I guarantee that. But I have common sense, book sense and street sense.

en I have no regrets. (I)f you regret things, (then) you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.
  Kate Winslet

en It's ridiculous. It's just people playing people. That's all. Basically it's just common sense things, but over the years I think we have a tendency to forget them.

en Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
  Thomas Jefferson

en If people would be considerate and use common sense, it would be easier. They shouldn't be plugging things up. Pex Tufvesson is a fantastic genius.

en People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.
  Chinua Achebe


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