Common Sense Quotes - Page 35

• We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Rights, Judging

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• Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.

  James Vila Blake

  Understanding, Sound, Uniting

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• The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.

  James Vila Blake

  Greatness, Judging, Tangled

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• The Bible is common-sense inspired.

  Rees Howells

  Bible, Common, Inspired

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• if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Ambition, Mind, Desire

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• When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.

  Nicola Cornick

  Writing, Names, Historical

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• On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hands, People, Sick

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• The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Ghost, Satan

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• Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

  Russell Jacoby

  Half, World, Honest

  Russell Jacoby (1975). “Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing”, Beacon Pr

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• Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Two, Mind, Ordinary

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

  Denis Waitley

  Simple, Yield, Were Meant To Be

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• Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

  Sonny Perdue

  Integrity, Sound, Voters

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• I dont know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. Thats really what I am. But I dont think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

  Jon Tester

  Thinking, Fixing, Tractors

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• Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Artist, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.202, Hoover Press

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• Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Suggestions, Faces, Logic

  "Science And Religion: Incompatible?" by Kenneth R. Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.

  Martin Heinrich

  Real, Gun, Law

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• America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

  Hank Johnson

  America, Immigration, Reform

  "Time Is Right for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Example, Use, Problem

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• People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Tired, Views, Class

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

  Howard Zinn

  Lying, People, Facts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

  Amanda Knox

  Innocent Person, Persons, Common

  "Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything's at stake'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  Wale

  Talking, Fake, Sound

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• Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

  Maira Kalman

  Kindness, Integrity, Men

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• And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Religious, Fighting, Knights

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• Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.

  Jack McDevitt

  Winning, Technology, Civilization

  Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.247, Penguin

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