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Our coalition doesn't seek an end to development in the Jonah field ... but we are calling for a common sense balance that allows for energy exploration with a defined upper limit on emissions.

Other states across the nation have moved forward to protect their citizens. I think this is a common-sense, slow-motion step, allowing localities to take their own way.

Resistance has finally given way to common sense,

People let their common sense go on vacation before they do. It's easy to get caught up in the whole experience.

Surely common sense would tell you you're more likely to get illegal purchasing if RU486 is not available through legitimate means.

That Exxon took chances with the livelihood of 32,000 people makes the conduct, from a common sense perspective, worse.

Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're seeing is just too little, too late.

I tend to take a common-sense approach to problem-solving, and oftentimes that involves the use of quantitative analysis. I do have an appreciation for the collection, analysis and application of information, both as it relates to our business operations and to our baseball operations.

I think police officers are using common sense in making arrests. A person taking water would be a certain kind of situation versus a person taking a big screen television.

It defies common sense that these soldiers have been denied their right to the reimbursement they are due under the law.

It defies common sense and lots of careful research to think that the highest-rated credit on the planet can borrow half a trillion dollars a year without pushing aside some private investment and ultimately hurting productivity growth.

It is common sense. We aren't telling them what to say. We aren't telling them what to do on their own time.

Most good work habits are just common sense, Don't stick beans up your nostrils.

Use your common sense. I still see people putting their social security numbers on their driver's license.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

We haven't been terribly specific, except to say that the application of common sense is desirable. In the end, the House seems likely to adopt new rules, and then we'll all abide by them. In the meantime, it would be good to be wise.

We'll obviously use common sense, in that if players aren't yet up to the level of fitness we're looking for we won't risk them. We don't want to risk any injuries before the Northern Rail Cup campaign.

Unfortunately you can't rely on common sense when it comes to highway-safety laws.

We are concerned if one life is lost. If people would just use their common sense, we will save lives every day.

We are always dreaming up ways to be more efficient. A lot of it is common sense.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.

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

You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

The law of common sense.

What we're trying to do is get you to think. Today is about tactics and using common sense. Everything you do is thinking.

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do...

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

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.

The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.

Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place!

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

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.

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

We're looking at a lot of runoff. People should use their common sense.

Those who own more expensive properties pay more each year in property taxes; that's just common sense. But the one-third reduction is across the board and provides relief to Texans at all income levels.

There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.

When you enter this door you do not check your common sense at the entrance ... it is indeed valuable in this case.

Experience join'd with common sense, to mortals is a providence

Fairly common sense, straightforward stuff. Who can disagree with that?

We all want to be out there. Still, you have to use a little common sense. The more he pitches, the more he has to monitor himself. Making so many pitches affects your stuff. Once it affects your stuff, you can give up runs, and then you're kicking yourself. Your body has to tell you. Your arm might feel good, but then your legs might not feel so great. It's a delicate balance.

to show common sense and restraint and not to allow further escalation of the conflict.

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.

There is no such thing as common sense. It's not common because everyone is different, and everyone has different life experiences. ... Many people just don't have any frame of reference or experience when it comes to understanding the Islands and our environment.

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

We welcome this announcement, ... The Australian government has announced a judicial inquiry on this matter and it is common sense to let that process run its course.

You look at common sense you have to say it's coming to Charlotte, but until I hear it, my fingers are still crossed.

Even though common sense tells us that a piece of evidence doesn't need to be examined, we'll usually examine it anyway. If we find clothing with a rust stain on it, we need to look to see if it might be blood. A prudent prosecutor is not going to take the chance.

Even though it appears as if Mt. Lebanon acted within the letter of the law common sense did not prevail in how the contract was structured,

Common sense would tell you that when you see your starting quarterback out there practicing, and knowing what he has gone through and all the little concerns and all the things you think about when you go through what he went through, it's a relief to see him back on the field and having fun and throwing the ball down field 50 yards, strikes, ... I think that's all behind us now.

Common sense tells you that the more frequent these storms are the worse off we are all going to be and certainly the worse off the barrier islands are going to be. These islands had quite a long time to recover after Hurricane Camille. Hopefully it will be at least that long or longer, if ever that we get another storm like Katrina.

Common sense tells us the university is the major catalyst, but beyond that, what is the tourism pull for Orange County as a whole? We really didn't know.

Common sense should prevail when you read these emails, ... Petition manufacturers for information to ease your mind.

Common sense says if you want to help the developing world, you do not discourage people from traveling there.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Common sense and briefings tell us at ground zero it will take folks longer to get back home, but not because of contamination -- it's because of the process,

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.

Common sense alone says energy is not going to be the leader.

Contrary to their claim of no regulation on bottled water, there is a common-sense permit process that doesn't harm businesses.

Anecdotal evidence and common sense suggests that core inflation has not been anywhere near this tame.

a notable victory for reason and common sense over intolerance and extremism.

Emotions always get cranked up after incidents of this type. It's good to step back and let common sense prevail. I appreciate Bill Duffy's willingness to help work through this with the Davis family and ours. That's how things get worked out, when people are willing to talk.

I've been hunting since I was big enough to sit on my daddy's knee. I was raised to hunt and to hunt with common sense.

It would not be a question of censoring oneself, but of using common sense.

provides for common sense tax relief in the future. We have the largest surplus in history, which means the taxpayers are being overcharged.

Our approach is common sense in this professional era, and the WRU has ideals we've looked at.

people think common sense is common - but it's not.

That's just common sense. That is definitely one of the working principals in guiding us.

This is a real changing of gears for the county. It just makes perfectly good common sense. It's way more affordable.

This is not brain surgery. This is common sense. I'm baffled. I really am.

This case is about credibility, common sense and credibility.

They were just trying to foul, so the common sense thing to do is throw it up at the basket. As long as you don't dribble no more, it's a continuation.

This is a critical government program that is in complete shambles. We are talking about simple, common- sense responsibility to shield American consumers from rising energy prices. Performance standards are the most successful tool we have to ease the burden on consumers and protect our increasingly fragile energy supply system, but the feds are asleep at the switch.

They should never have entered him in that computer. It's just common sense ? that's the bottom line. I don't think it should have gotten this far.

This may seem like common sense to most folks, but there's really been no literature or science where researchers tried to quantify and verify the effect.

There seems to be a lack of common sense perspective in some media people,

At least Nebraska is doing that. Nebraska does show some common sense.

At any time any spot on the river can be a safety issue, you just have to use common sense. All the sheriff has to do is replace our buoys with his buoys.