"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."

Lawrence Hargrave, Australian Scientist

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"Have common sense and stick to the point."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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