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"We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face."
"He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences."
"There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection."
"The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished."
"Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation."
"All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history."
"The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."
"Have common sense and stick to the point."
"I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God."
"The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars."
"Taste is the common sense of genius."
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense"
"His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much."
"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
"Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction."
"I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play."
"Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating."
"If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources."
"Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common"."
