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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.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. 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.

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

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

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'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.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

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.

Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.