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• Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.

  Bill Nye

  Dog, People, Chihuahua

  "Commencement Speech: Bill Nye the Science Guy". my.umbc.edu. May 20, 2015.

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• Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

  Bill Murray

  People, Needs, Use

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• While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Revenge, Mean, Race

  Bertrand Russell, Kenneth Blackwell (2008). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell”

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• We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Support, Suffering

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• We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Real, Compassion

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• The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

  William O. Douglas

  Church, Doe, Would Be

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• Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

  Peter Schiff

  Thinking, Printing Money, Circles

  "A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way" by Peter Schiff, www.businessinsider.com. March 7, 2011.

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• An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

  Soseki Natsume

  Artist, World, Triangles

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• Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

  Charlie Munger

  Bats, Tunes, Able

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• Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Successful, Behavior, Spite

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.26, Profile Books

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• Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Play, People

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• Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

  Max Anders

  Moving, Done, Deities

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• Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

  Russell Sherman

  Song, Needs, Praying

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• When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

  Robert De Niro

  Art, Passion, Fighting

  "Robert De Niro curses in commencement speech", www.foxnews.com. May 24, 2015.

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• A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

  Fred Hoyle

  Science, If There Is A God, Tuning

  "The Universe: Past and Present Reflections". "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics", volume 20, p. 16, September 1982.

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• Our approach has worked for us. Look at the fun we, our managers, and our shareholders are having. More people should copy us. It's not difficult, but it looks difficult because it's unconventional - it isn't the way things are normally done. We have low overhead, don't have quarterly goals and budgets or a standard personnel system, and our investing is much more concentrated than average. It's simple and common sense.

  Charlie Munger

  Fun, Simple, Average

  "Charlie Munger Speaks". Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway and Wesco at the 2000 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 15, 2000.

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• The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Needs, World, Common

  Llewelyn Powys (1935). “Damnable Opinions”

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• I simply care nothing for any of your religions, as all three are fundamentally flawed, unlike the Church of Common Sense, right from the start! They call God he instead of she and all three would like to burn me at the stake for saying that!

  Roseanne Barr

  Church, Three, Care

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.38, Full Moon Publications

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• The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.

  J. William Fulbright

  Kings, Warrior, Compassion

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• If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

  Ai Weiwei

  Giving Up, Thinking, Government

  "Who Is Ai Weiwei?". Interview with Lucy Birmingham, www.blouinartinfo.com. August 11, 2009.

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• A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

  Clive James

  Dancing, Common, Humour

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• What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Doctrine, Pascal, Pleasure

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

  Adam Carolla

  Hands, Fists, Lawyer

  Adam Carolla (2010). “In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks”, p.1, Crown Archetype

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• One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

  Fred Brooks

  Humility, Men, Race

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