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Commonsense Quotes
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
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"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
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"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
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"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
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"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
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"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
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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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"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
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"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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"Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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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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"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
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"It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House."
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"Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense."
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"Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump."
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"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"Common sense is in medicine the master workman."
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"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
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"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."
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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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"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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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
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"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable."
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