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Common sense is not so common.


Voltaire
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
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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Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
Harry Kroto
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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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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.


George Seaton
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Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it.
Lawrence Hargrave
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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
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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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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Thomas Reid
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.


James Reston
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Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.


Joni Ernst
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America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
Hank Johnson