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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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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."
"Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice."
"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
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