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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
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Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
- Mark Walport
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Expanded gaming is a long-overdue and common sense way to make Kentucky more competitive and protect the hard-earned pensions of our teachers and first responders.
- Andy Beshear
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
- Francis Spufford
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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.
- Algernon Sidney
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We have not provided our frontline supervisors and managers and individuals with the proper procedures that would allow them to use their common sense.
- Oscar Munoz
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
- Katharine Hepburn
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.
- Rob Sheffield
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My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
- Amy Bloom
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
- George Berkeley
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Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you'd call that communism. I think in the future, we'll have to call that common sense.
- Ash Sarkar
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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
- Thomas Huxley
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Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents.
- Colleen Hanabusa
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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
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
- Sam Rayburn
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It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care.
- Mark Takano
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
- Baron d'Holbach
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
- Baron d'Holbach
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
- Baron d'Holbach
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It's just common sense that everyone should be listening to J Hus.
- J Hus
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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
- Michael King
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How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have come to be applied to those who represent minority interests and opinions?
- Mehdi Hasan
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Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.
- Morrissey
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The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
- Trey Gowdy
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In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?
- Scott Fujita
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Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
- John Edward Christopher Hill
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Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
- Joan Blades
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The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
- Fred Thompson
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
- David Deutsch
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Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.
- Rosalind Wiseman
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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.
- Dan Simmons
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I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.
- Stephen Jackson
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If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
- Steve Chabot
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America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
- Hank Johnson
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Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
- Harry Kroto
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Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'
- Liz Williams
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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
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A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.
- Adam Rodriguez
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
- James Reston
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Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
- Peter Latham
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I support the 2nd Amendment - and our sportsmen and sportswomen throughout Minnesota - and I also believe that we need to pass common sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.
- Tina Smith
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Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
- Fergus Henderson
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In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
- Mike Crapo
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Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
- Steven Seagal
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I often debate liberals on Fox News Channel who tend to start yelling and attacking when they run out of facts or common sense. I suppose these folks figure if they bow up and get in our faces, we'll just back down and see the world their way.
- Mike Gallagher
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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
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We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and who show solidarity with others.
- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
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For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.
- Peter Berg
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A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!
- Tim Pawlenty
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It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.
- Stanley Marcus
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
- John Masefield
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I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
- Carly Fiorina
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I'll trade glib for common sense any day.
- Steve Wynn
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We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.
- Hozier
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Common sense is genius in homespun.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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It's the manager's job to always knock on the door, to always strive to improve, but there has to be a reasonable degree of common sense too.
- Steve Bruce
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It's common sense. Here's a problem, here's a solution. What will it manifest to? This drives me every day.
- Mike Lindell
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
- Samuel E. Morison
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Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.
- Joni Ernst
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
- William Inge
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
- Jeannette Rankin
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
- Samuel Fuller
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With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.
- Eric Church
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I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
- John Warner
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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
- Angelina Grimke
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With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I want a president who will build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. A president who tackles global warming head-on and stands up for common sense solutions that keep guns away from dangerous people.
- Terry McAuliffe
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I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
- Elliot Page
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
- Caity Lotz
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What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.
- Robert Duvall
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If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
- Joan Crawford
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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
- Norman O. Brown
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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
- Wayne Brady
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I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
- William Golding
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I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
- Alain de Botton
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
- Carl Levin
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Common sense is often underrated.
- Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
- Hack Wilson
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I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
- Ian Dunbar
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There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
- Douglas Hofstadter
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As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
- Catharine Beecher
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
- Vincent Bugliosi
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
- Edmund Morgan
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When the NRA wants to prevent gun reform, they funnel money into the campaigns of candidates nationwide to make sure they don't vote for common sense gun reform. Insurance companies do the same to block Medicare for All and prevent us from guaranteeing health care as a right, not a privilege.
- Kirsten Gillibrand
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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.
- Bob Ney
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Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
- William Hague
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I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
- Herman Cain
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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
- Lyall Watson
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If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
- Lyall Watson
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Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
- Julian Casablancas
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I believe in people. Human beings, deep down, are essentially good. Any jury can filter through whatever bull might be thrown their way and use common sense to get to the truth of a case. Juries make the right decisions, almost unfailingly, because people know right from wrong.
- Kimberly Guilfoyle
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It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.
- Pete Hegseth
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Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.
- Eliyahu Goldratt
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Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
- Eliyahu Goldratt
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Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
- Daymond John
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I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer. Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.
- Russell Pearce
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
- Queen Rania of Jordan
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The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly.
- Melissa Bean
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I follow science and common sense. Science says you should eat a variety of foods and eat more fruits and vegetables - I do that.
- Maye Musk
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