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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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"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."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"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."
"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
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"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."
"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."
"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."
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