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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

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.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.

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

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.