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It's just common sense. Security has always been about having a flexible and dynamic policy in place, and NAC speaks to that.

It's a book that I think is very much about common sense,

It's a great time of year for people to just be using common sense with everything from tossing cigarettes out of vehicles to just not doing any burns outside their house if they can avoid it.

It just makes common sense. We'd much rather have people take a bottle home instead of sit in a bar and drink before getting on the road.

It's ridiculous. It's just people playing people. That's all. Basically it's just common sense things, but over the years I think we have a tendency to forget them.

Congress has repeatedly attempted to address this serious need and the court yet again opposed these common-sense measures to protect America's children.

It's not good. From a common sense point of view, of course it's going to be a problem. It's going to be a mess.

Everybody should use their common sense and if it seems suspicious, it probably is. It's buyer beware.

It's in the best interests of this country that we continue to keep some common sense and sanity in the process here, and we've got to remember that not only is all of America looking and hoping and wondering about the future of this country and our ability to govern, but so is the world.

It's common sense. This is a city people love to visit, and this is one of the events that makes New Orleans what it is.

It's clear to anyone with common sense this is an attempt to get votes.

I've had a terrific battle with common sense, and finally stupidity won.

Nothing is official yet. We feel good that common sense will prevail.

The wait time for customers in certain areas of the state was absolutely unacceptable, ... We immediately implemented one common-sense approach to serve the people of Illinois better. We provided chairs so that you no longer had to stand in line.

The vote was a vote for common sense and basic fairness. It is a victory for Florida taxpayers, working families and businesses who can all breathe a little bit easier knowing that once this legislation is signed they'll be less likely to be targeted for a lawsuit simply because they have the ability to pay.

They want you to throw your common sense out the window.

Once again, environmentalist scare-mongering seeks to undermine common-sense reforms that shore up our energy infrastructure.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

After that, they've got to use common sense, because there is always somebody trying to make a quick buck by trying to scam someone.

At this stage it's, I believe, a very solvable problem ... and common sense should prevail there.

Improving workplace health and well-being therefore not only makes common sense, it can also really make a difference.

I'm asking you to not leave your common sense at the door. Things in this trial don't quite add up. There's more to this case than Jerry Phelps' story.

If you can use your common sense and you can put the whole record together, I think it was a good presentation that didn't make the point that logic and common sense would allow to be made.

If you leave weights lying around, it's not just inconvenient. It's a safety issue. It should be a common-sense thing.

In repudiating extremism, we need to recommit ourselves to a few common-sense principles that should transcend partisan differences.

I guess it's something that has kind of developed, ... By the time the game starts, coach Reggie and I have studied the opponent so much I know the percentages of what a team will do on third down or second down or out of a certain formation. When you look at football scientifically and probabilities you can guess right. And sometimes it's just common sense. When they've got three or four guys over here and one over there, you can guess the ball is going over there.

Clearly we're disappointed. This violates common sense. What it really says is there are loopholes in the law.

All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.

He sees the Metro bus-service proposal as a common-sense, cost-saving measure for the school district.

I didn't see the replay, but common sense will tell you that if the glove and the arm are behind the goal line, there's a pretty good chance the puck is underneath it. I guess common sense doesn't mean anything there.

You have to have the common sense.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

Chain letters like this are too easily forwarded to friends, family and colleagues without people using their common sense. Stories like this become urban legends, constantly being repeated without anyone bothering to check the facts. Hoaxes and chain letters like this are not harmless - they waste time and bandwidth, and can be a genuine headache for support departments. Users need to be more skeptical, and ask themselves whether everything they are told by email can be believed.

He's truly a renaissance individual for our times, ... I've likened him to a Will Rogers voice in Congress (with) humor (and) common sense. He brought real legislative achievements, working on environmental issues for Southern California ... working on issues for the voters of California by protecting their will against activist judges. He was a well-rounded and dedicated lawmaker.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people.

I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun...I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

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

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

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

It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

Common sense is very uncommon.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind. And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself.

I feel like, despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration.

I couldn't believe it. It is just common sense; you don't let anything out of a bank with someone's Social Security number on it.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

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

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be Lyrically, Talib Kweli Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense But I did 5 mill' - I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.