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"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."

"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."

"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."

"It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House."

"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."

"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."

"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"

"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."

"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."
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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."

"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."

"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."
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