#common sense

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House. ↗

— Robert Taft

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Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence. ↗

— Matthew Green

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Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. ↗

— William Hague

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Common sense is in medicine the master workman. ↗

— Peter Latham

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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. ↗

— Margaret Deland

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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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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