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Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.


Samuel Fuller
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Common sense is not so common.


Voltaire
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.


George Seaton
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I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.
Michael Redhill
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Taste is the common sense of genius.


Victor Hugo
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
William Hague
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Madeline Zima
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
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Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.


John Edward Christopher Hill
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I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
William Golding
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They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
Wendy E. Long
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
James Garner
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.


Leonardo da Vinci
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.


Robertson Davies
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.


Charles Baudelaire
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.


An Wang
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Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.


Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
Gail Porter
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