#common sense

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it. ↗

— Ric Keller

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The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. ↗

— John Masefield

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We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

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Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. ↗

— William Hague

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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