"There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings."
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"It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse."
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"What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong."
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"Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,."
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"A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world."
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"Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!"
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"Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths."
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"A sense of humour is common sense dancing."
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"The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense."
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"Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily."
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"Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable."
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"I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense."
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"Common sense needs constant reappraisal."
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"Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18."
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"Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality."
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"A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence."
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"We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes."
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"Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank."
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"There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten."
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"The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds."
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