Common Sense Quotes - Page 33

• Michelle Landr is a fabulous member of Parliament. She is a true representative of that community. She's a classic middle-of-the-road Australian who represents the interests of her community with passion and with a lot of common sense.

  George Brandis

  Passion, Community, Fabulous

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• [Donald Trump] has had the good judgment and common sense to get back with all these people, who have written the legislation already.

  Mary Matalin

  People, Judgment, Legislation

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Looks, Definitions

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Cells, America

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• I went right to Chicago to do improv [after law school], but I wish I had gone, "Let me just bypass this law thing." I mean, sure, it helps you read a contract, but I can read a contract regardless. It's just common sense, contracts.

  Rich Fulcher

  School, Mean, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.

  Werner Herzog

  Responsibility, Thinking, Volcanoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

  Jay Roach

  Black, Levels, Toads

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Thinking, Sea, Land

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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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.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Thinking, Kind, Certain

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.

  Jim Ross

  Wrestling, Long, Use

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• Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

  Newt Gingrich

  Russia, Diverse Society, Suggestions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Islam is the religion of peace. And Islam, genuine, real Muslims are as opposed to Al-Qaeda and ISIS as we are. That is what has been dictated to our law enforcement agents by their superiors. If those were your instructions, and you have a terror attack and you're out there reporting to the media, trying to answer questions, you'd sound like a babbling buffoon, too, because you'd have to come up with ways to violate the very common sense you know is true.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Terror Attacks, Isis

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• ...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Oil, Water, Mercy

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

  Chris Colfer

  Couple, Moving, Kids

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• I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

  James Branch Cabell

  Time, Three, Toys

  James Branch Cabell (1927). “Townsend of Lichfield”

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• Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Rain, Adversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, North Atlantic Books

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• Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Depression, Jealousy, Wise

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Jul 26, 2016

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• Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

  Martin Amis

  Humor, Serious, Bunch

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Martin Amis' lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iop.harvard.edu. January 30, 1997.

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Humility

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• All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

  Mandell Creighton

  Knowledge, Science, Common

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• There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.100, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

  Thomas Huxley

  Determination, Past, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  Chapman Cohen

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

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