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"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"

"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."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

"Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump."

"Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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