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"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
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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."
"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."
"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."
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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."
"Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left."
"The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time."
"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."
"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"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."
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