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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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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
"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."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
"The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum."
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"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."
"A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction."
"In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective."
"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
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