#common sense

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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Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it. ↗

— Ric Keller

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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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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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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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Romantics consider common sense vulgar. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

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The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. ↗

— Sarah Brady

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I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense. ↗

— Wayne Brady

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