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"Common sense often makes good law."
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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."
"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."
"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
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"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
"We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet."
"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
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