"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

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"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."

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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."

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William O. Douglas, American Judge

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