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"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
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"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
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"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
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