#common sense

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Samuel E. Morison

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Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

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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. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

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I have confidence in people's basic common sense. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Helen Rowland

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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. ↗

— George Santayana

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Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important. ↗

— Steven Seagal

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