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"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."

"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."

"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."

"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."

"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."

"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
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