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Fred Thompson

"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."

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"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."

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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

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"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."

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"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."

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"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."

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"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."

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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

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"Romantics consider common sense vulgar."

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"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."

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"So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world."
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"Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists."
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"And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up."
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"I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that."
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"And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different."
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