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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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"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."
"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."
"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"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."
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
"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."
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"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
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