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• Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.

  Daniel Pauly

  Motivation, Elements, Corporations

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• Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

  Edward Kasner

  Math, Views, Imagination

  Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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• The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.

  George Polya

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Believe, Math

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Ikea, Simplicity, Planning

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• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  Ida B. Wells

  Home, School, Simple

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• Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

  David Thorne

  Common, Resorts, Concise

  David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.38, Penguin

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• I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

  Gail Porter

  Kabbalah, Pay, Earning

  "This much I know". Interview with Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2006.

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• Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Style, Moral, Guidelines

  Statement in 1981. Special issue of Humankind Advancing, Volume 5, No.1, January 21, 1994.

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• Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

  Gene Spafford

  Guarantees, Computer, Sanity

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• In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

  Gavin Extence

  Long, Track, Records

  Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.344, Hachette UK

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• Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

  Carolyn Wells

  Care, Dignity, Common

  Carolyn Wells (2007). “Patty at Home”, p.42, 1st World Publishing

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• Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

  Stuart Chase

  World, Flats, Common

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa, 1952.

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• Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

  Amit Abraham

  Common, Virtue, Uncommon

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• But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.

  James Gilmour

  Men, Together, Missionary

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

  James Gilmour

  Missionary, May, Christ

  James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

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• ...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.

  William Carey

  Missionary, Kingdoms, Fields

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• . . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Business, Philosophy

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• But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable; and were they not so, would be extremely pernicious to human society. Render possessions ever so equal, men's different degrees of art, care, and industry will immediately break that equality. Or if you check these virtues, you reduce society to the most extreme indigence; and instead of preventing want and beggary in a few, render it unavoidable to the whole community.

  David Hume

  Art, Men, Ideas

  David Hume (2013). “Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

  Anna Sewell

  Heart, Good Luck, Particular

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty”, p.133, Xist Publishing

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• Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

  Kevin Yoder

  Jobs, Believe, Wealth

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

  Austin Farrer

  Life, Peace, Kindness

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• Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .

  Marsilio Ficino

  Beauty, Running, Hero

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• Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

  Plato

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.333, Penguin

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