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Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.
It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really.
An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
Everyone has a temper, but in Sweden, no one throws a racquet or screams. We show more manners and common sense. This is a game, not war.
It makes common sense that children, whose brains are rapidly developing, should not be hitting their heads hundreds of times per season.
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.
On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort of common sense.
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.
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.
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision.
Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
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.
Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.
It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.
I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.
This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group of people want to be affirmed by society.
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.
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.