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

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

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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

Common sense,

"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

Common sense, Result, Skill, Want

"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

Common sense, May, Sound

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

David Deutsch, American Scientist

Common sense, Theories

"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

Common sense, Custom, Facts, Myth

"Have common sense and stick to the point."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Common sense,

"Common sense often makes good law."

William O. Douglas, American Judge

Common sense, Law

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Common sense, Nothing

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

Charles D. Broad, British Philosopher

Common sense,

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

Josh Billings, American Comedian

Common sense,

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"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

Forgiveness

"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

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"Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed."

Theology

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Interest

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

Children

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

Discipline

"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

Soul

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

Soul

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

Imagination

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

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