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It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.
As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.
Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.
What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.
My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...
When your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs.
Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
To make real progress in A.I., we have to overcome the big challenges in the area of common sense.
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?
I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.