"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
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"I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false."
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"Common sense is the genius of humanity."
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"Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true."
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"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."
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"Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is."
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"I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct."
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"And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense."
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"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing."
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"The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear."
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"The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health."
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"Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
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"Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world."
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"Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have."
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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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"It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense."
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"Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience."
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"Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison."
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"People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense."
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"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."
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