#common sense

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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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

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

— Thomas Huxley

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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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