"Common sense often makes good law."

Common sense, Law

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"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

Vince McMahon, American Entertainer

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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."

Lawrence Hargrave, Australian Scientist

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"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."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

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"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."

David Deutsch, American Scientist

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"Have common sense and stick to the point."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."

Charles D. Broad, British Philosopher

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

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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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."

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."

Court

"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."

Nixon

"The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized."

Men

"It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off."

People

"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."

Work

"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."

Wisdom

"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."

Government

"We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being."

People

"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."

History

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."

Performance