#sensible

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What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.


Christina Romer


#compensation #efforts #financial #focused #going

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.


Rosalind Russell


#insensible #man #prosperity #relish #tasted

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.


Tiffany Madison


#control #desperation #freedom #love #lover

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime


Samuel Butler


#existence #life #lifetime #living #sensible

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.


Richard D. James


#hacker #i #person #really #sensible

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.


Aristotle


#gold #impress #into #iron #itself

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.


Isaac Asimov


#any #change #continuing #decision #dominant

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.


Mary Astell


#concerns #great #insensible #know #matters

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


#being #distinct #good-humoured #man #orders

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.


Charles Babbage


#almost #daily #devote #effect #exertion