#common sense

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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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No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ↗

— John Mortimer

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

— George Santayana

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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. ↗

— Terence

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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time. ↗

— Sabrina Lloyd

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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. ↗

— Andrew Mellon

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