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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!"
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"Romantics consider common sense vulgar."
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"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
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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."
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"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
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"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."
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"Common sense is not so common."
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"Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense."
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"Common sense is in medicine the master workman."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
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"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love

"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
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"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing

"Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman."
Nature

"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."
Society
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