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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

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 #decision #into #longer #made

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


#been #decline #fall #finite #first

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.


Ron Chernow


#dangerous #effects #hold #individual #market

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.


Grover Cleveland


#ago #assigned #assumed #civilization #higher

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.


Millicent Fawcett


#any #character #conduct #consistent #could

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.


Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


#german #harmony #more #others #persons

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.


Charles de Secondat


#descriptions #go #i #make #paradise

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.


Lawrence Durrell


#energy #lot #neurosis #novel #really

We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.


Nan Hayworth


#commitments #courageous #debt #deficit #future