#common sense

Have common sense and stick to the point. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Philosophy is common sense with big words. ↗

— James Madison

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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate. ↗

— Vince McMahon

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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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