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Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

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.

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.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

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.