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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Everybody says, 'I have problems overcooking steak on the grill,' but just take it off earlier! Grilling is really common sense. It's very simple. You should think of a grill as a burner - it just happens to have grates. You shouldn't be intimidated by it.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common sense of such policies?

We're going to look at it from a less theoretical standpoint and more from a common sense, everyday type of view. We're going to mix both views.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

A Keyring? Achievements? These are not WoW-specific things. They are common sense. They exist in the real world.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

I'm pretty laidback as a dad anyway. I just trust her so much. She has a great head on her shoulders and she makes pretty good decisions most of the time. She even has enough common sense that if she makes a bad one she makes adjustments and knows that's what life is. It's a day-by-day, step-by-step journey through life, as she says in the movie.

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.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

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

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

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

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants who already live in our communities, work for our businesses and want to give back to the country that they call home.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

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.

Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church, your pastor, your parents, common sense, tradition, everything. You would have been against everything.

I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.

It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.

The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

What we attempted to do today was put some more common sense and responsible legislation on the table through the legislative process as opposed to the ballot process to avoid having a very damaging constitutional amendment.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

Somewhere along the line common sense should prevail,.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

Like anything, ... you got to use some common sense.

On a good day, you don't need that many fish, ... You have to take a scientific and common sense approach.

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Right field is important, but what we're looking for is common sense. Swing at the ball in the strike zone. His tendency is to be overly aggressive. We think we can throttle him back.

I am especially excited about giving computers common sense. Computers should be able to understand the emotions of humans. As computers begin to understand the human world, they can help us far more efficiently.

FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

We can legislate against that as long as it's officiated with common sense.

What I said I'd do is bring a common-sense approach to government, I'd have no hidden agendas and I'd use my business leadership skills.

There is a need for a common-sense voice in Lincoln. I want to provide that voice for Lincoln County.

I think it's just common sense, ... These are people with a propensity for service who previously served honorably and who are trained. If they want to serve, why shouldn't we offer them that opportunity? And why should we put up barriers?

I think it's great and should have been done years ago. It's just common sense for safety alone. I've had a couple of girls get hit by pitches in the face, and the safety of the kids is the bottom line.

I think it's common sense, ... Do you want to work with someone who you are attacking? You don't have to say anything. You don't have to be sleazy and make deals.

I think anybody who can look at it in a common-sense manner - they went from a Super Bowl team to a 4-4 team that's in last place in the division. And there's probably a lot of reasons for that, but I think the more glaring reason is the controversy that's gone on since the Super Bowl.

I think that's common sense. Money can be replaced; lives cannot.

It is a victory for common sense and obviously we are delighted to have Ricardo with us again.

I think common sense has prevailed and this is good news for competitors.

Parents and adults just need to use common sense, ... A child doesn't become violent because of the toy they play with, but because of the homes and the environment they live in.

Our goal isn't to dumb down the rules. It's to use some common sense in what we regulate.

Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.