"Common sense often makes good law."

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

William Osler, Canadian 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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"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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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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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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"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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"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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"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."

Challenge

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

Nixon

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

Court

"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."

Medicine

"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."

Government

"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

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

History

"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."

Marriage

"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."

Life

"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