#common sense

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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The GOP leaders are upset with me, but the Republicans around the district are thanking me for stepping up to the plate and giving them a choice in this election of a real common sense conservative Reagan Republican. ↗

— Doug Hoffman

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I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be. ↗

— Eric Holder

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. ↗

— John Masefield

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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Common sense is not so common. ↗

— Voltaire

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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ↗

— Josh Billings

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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

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