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"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."

"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."

"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."

"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."

"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
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"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."

"The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases."

"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

"There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs."

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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