NEPA's common sense approach to foster discussion and collaboration about major development projects has worked well to protect our national treasures and resources.
Frances Beinecke
CollaborationCommon SenseDevelopment
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.
Rob Sheffield
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron d'Holbach
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Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
Mason Cooley
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Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'
Liz Williams
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I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.
Jon Tester
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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Christopher Lasch
OpinionPresentCommon SenseParty
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
Coretta Scott King
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I have way more bravery than common sense, but you always assume things are going to be so difficult, and then when you're actually faced with them, you prevail. It's human nature.
Annabelle Wallis
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Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
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Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
Peter Latham
MedicineCommon SenseMasterSense
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas Huxley
ScienceCommon SenseNothingSense
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Noam Chomsky
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The biggest learning during my tenure as a captain was that, a lot of time, I used to think that this is common sense. But no, there is nothing called common sense.
MS Dhoni
LearningTimeThinkCommon Sense
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
Lyall Watson
LifeWaterCommon SenseAttention
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian Casablancas
WisdomCommon SenseVanitySense
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan
PeopleWorldCommon SensePrivilege
Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
Eliyahu Goldratt
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire
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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Alan Watts
CultureUniverseFeelCommon Sense
I want a president who will build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. A president who tackles global warming head-on and stands up for common sense solutions that keep guns away from dangerous people.
Terry McAuliffe
PeopleCommon SenseDangerousWant
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
George Berkeley
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