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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
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"Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition."
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
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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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"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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"Common sense is in medicine the master workman."
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"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
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Explore more quotes by James Madison
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
Government
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
Government
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
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"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
Reading
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
Learning
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
Science
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
Home
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."
Rights
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
Power
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