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Common Sense Quotes
Short lines in praise of plain, practical reasoning.
Common sense is easy to expect and surprisingly rare in practice, whether the setting is a televised game show or an everyday disagreement. This page collects quotes that notice the gap between expecting sound judgment and actually seeing it. See also Best quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have not provided our frontline supervisors and managers and individuals with the proper procedures that would allow them to use their common sense.
- Nov 07, 2020
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hygiene
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
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- Nov 07, 2020