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"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."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."

"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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