Common Sense Quotes - Page 18

• The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Party, Political, Tea

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• Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

  Francis Spufford

  Culture, Demand, Systematic

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

  John B. Larson

  Children, School, Trying

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• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  Mac Thornberry

  Political, Balance, Environmental

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• Psychic development makes you strong. It develops a common sense attitude in which you don't expose yourself to forces, people and situations that would drain you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Strong, Attitude

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• Stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.

  Richard Pascale

  War, Knowledge, Learning

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.146, Harvard Business Press

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• We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

  Louise Mensch

  Media, Two, Worry

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• Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

  Peter Welch

  Stars, Jobs, Home

  "Creating Jobs by Investing in Energy Efficiency" by Peter Welch, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

  Richelle Mead

  Sex, Way, Cures

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1369, Penguin

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• Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

  Charlie Munger

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Innovation, Enemy

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.29, Penguin

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• The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Heart, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.103, Criss Jami

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• The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Creative, Way, Madness

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• It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.

  Maynard Webb

  Destiny, Yield, Passionate

  "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2010.

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• This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

  George Will

  Age, Common, Warrants

  George F. Will (1999). “The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.

  Dan John

  Workout, Thinking, Long

  "Questions and Answers About Lifting. How do I prevent overtraining?". danjohn.net.

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• The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

  Kedar Joshi

  Nature, Science, Historical

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• Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place!

  David Berg

  Heaven, Earth, Practicals

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• And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Car, Alternatives, Asking

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Moving, Science, Discovery

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• The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Exercise, Principles

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• Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Rights, Play

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.23, Modern Library

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• Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

  Juvenal

  Common, Higher

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• Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

  Juvenal

  Men, Wealth, Fortune

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Satires, VIII, line 73, 1922.

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