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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

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

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

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

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.