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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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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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"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."
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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."
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"It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"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."
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"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
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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!"
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"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
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"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."
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"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
Education

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
Technology

"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."
Progress

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."
People

"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
Work

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

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Man

"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."
Love
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