#common sense

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. ↗

— Fred Thompson

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. ↗

— Michael King

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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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I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks. ↗

— Seann William Scott

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Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important. ↗

— Steven Seagal

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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked. ↗

— Carolyn McCarthy

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