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• Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

  William Osler

  Water, Soap, Medical

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 5

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• It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Common, Make Sense, Without God

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• I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Religious, Common, Knows

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• High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Politics, Great Things

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• Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common, Organized

  'Collected Essays' (1893-94) 'The Method of Zadig'

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• Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

  Rene Descartes

  Respect, Thinking, World

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• The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Work, Essentials

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

  Ric Keller

  Encouragement, Behavior, Illegal

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• There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Wife, Dread

  "Don Quixote in England: A comedy. As it is acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding, Esq".

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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.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Power, Wife

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• Common sense will tell us, that
  the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
  most improper to defend us.

  Thomas Paine

  Liberty, Common

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)”, p.63, Library of America

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• I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Political, Ordinary

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• Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

  William Fleming

  Men, Degrees, Phrases

  William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.95

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• It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Principles, Strange, Irony

  "The order of Nature". Book by awrence Joseph Henderson, Ch. 5, 1917.

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• Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Nonsense, Nonsensical

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Experience, Prevision

  "On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wisdom, Philosophy, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

  Josh Billings

  Genius, Comedy, Talent

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• I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

  Emily Dickinson

  Profound, Words Of Wisdom, Claims

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• Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

  John C. Bogle

  Life, Motivational, Perseverance

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons

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• Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Sound, Kind

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.218, Ravenio Books

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• Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

  John Wooden

  Self, Practice, Discipline

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.

  Philip Gulley

  Wise, Wisdom, Courage

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• Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

  Bill Joy

  Knowledge, Desire, Development

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• Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, .. His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Integrity, Dedication, Years

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