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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.
Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
It is past time for Democrats and Republicans to join together to create a bipartisan coalition for courage and common sense.
Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.
Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.
I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.
Americans are calling for a return to common sense in how we solve problems and how the people communicate with their government.
I follow science and common sense. Science says you should eat a variety of foods and eat more fruits and vegetables - I do that.
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
I constantly hear from residents throughout my community about the need for common sense action in Congress to reduce gun violence.
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.
People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer.
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
[Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.