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common sense
«In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion»
Author: James Reston
(Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
War
| Keywords:
casualties, casualty, common sense, discussion, free discussion, the discussion, The Second
«Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
common sense, distributed, distributes, Distributing, fairly
«It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Common sense,
Education
| Keywords:
common good, common sense, thousand times
«Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
common sense, killed, organized
«I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
campaign, campaigned, campaigning, campaigns, campaign of, common sense, declaration, Declaration of, justifies, moratorium, political campaign
«It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
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Common sense
| Keywords:
above all, admit, common sense, fails, frankly, method
«Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| Keywords:
climate, common sense, goes out, ride, sail
«I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, common sense
«It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
common sense, decencies, decency, favor, honesty, inaccurate, ineligible, office, public office, strongly
«Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Common sense,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
common mistake, common sense, creeping, creep in, creep up, crept, late, nowadays, regrets, sort, sort of, Too late