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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"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."
"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
"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."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"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."
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
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