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

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

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

"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

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

"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."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."

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

"He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all."

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