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• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Artist

  Codice Atlantico 90

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• Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Believe, San Francisco, Residents

  "NRA to File Suit Against San Francisco Gun Ban". www.foxnews.com. November 13, 2005.

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• It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

  Anthony Weiner

  Government, Enough, Should

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• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Historical, Methodology, Circumstances

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• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  Arthur Bryant

  Race, People, May

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• Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Men, Names, Different

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1873). “A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present”, p.49

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• Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

  Kingsley Amis

  Motto, Peril, Common

  Kingsley Amis (2011). “Stanley And The Women”, p.226, Random House

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• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

  Samuel Butler

  Voice, Common, Lord

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4367, Delphi Classics

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• Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Relationship, Fall

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Common sense ain't common.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Common

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• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

  Josh Billings

  Genius, Comedy, Elegant

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

  Tom Stoppard

  Book, Beer, Ideas

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• But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Kings, America

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense”, p.34, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

  Thomas Huxley

  Cutting, Science, Savages

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854)

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• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

  George Santayana

  Science, Perception, Development

  The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11

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• 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.

  Geert Wilders

  Logic, Modern, Should

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

  Dalai Lama

  Together, Today, Groups

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• Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Giving, Stills

  "The 10 best Pippi Longstocking quotes" by Laura Tscherry, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2015.

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• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Advantage, Sensible, Persons

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• The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

  Fred Thompson

  Agency, Sight, Regulation

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• If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

  Sam Rayburn

  Inspirational, Men, Ifs

  Sam Rayburn (1978). “"Speak, Mister Speaker"”

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• Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

  Alan Chadwick

  Stories, Pieces, Furniture

  Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

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• Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense.

  Theodora Goss

  Sometimes, Uncommon

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Age

  God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma (1875)

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• There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Common, No Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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