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• Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

  Sonny Perdue

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

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

  Wayne Brady

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• But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

  William Robertson Smith

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• I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren’t aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that’s inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

  Sabrina Lloyd

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  Victor Hugo

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• To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one’s duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,

  Horace Walpole

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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• I always try to believe the best of everybody — it saves so much trouble.

  Rudyard Kipling

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• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

  Bill Clinton

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• However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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• In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

  James Reston

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• High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

  Terence

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

  Norman O. Brown

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• Common sense is strengthened by joy.

  Nachman of Breslov

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• Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.

  Zach Wamp

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• I’m not a professional politician. I’m a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

  Herman Cain

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