[It is] surpassingly strange, ... put their common sense on hold.


Edward O. Wilson

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They just put common sense to it.
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KIT BOND
On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.
KALIFER DEIL
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
WAYNE BRADY
Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
ELIYAHU GOLDRATT
What makes sense these days? Sense is common; Common sense is rare
GWEN MERKELBACH
I want to put a little common sense back in Lincoln.
BILL WEAVER
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Homers happen. He (Wilson) made a good pitch, and the guy put a good swing on it.
CHRIS DENOVE
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not...
MADELINE ZIMA
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
ADA CAMBRIDGE
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
ALLY CONDIE
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
When people become to dependent on miracles,signs and wonders, people begin to lose their common sen...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense...
WILLIAM GOLDING
Hold on, and dont put us on hold
TIMOTHY JOSHUA
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enha...
ESTHER DYSON
Stop running your business on EMOTIONS and run it on Entrepreneurial Common Sense!
ROBERTO TORRES LIFESTYLE TRAINER
It is common sense for someone who has lived here for so long to be able to exert their talents to t...
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ
Alas, common sense is not so common.
MUHAMMED HAIDER
We decided to put a hold on what we wanted to do and stick it out -- hurt their business.
GORDON LEE
We know a lot of people have put their Labor Day plans on hold.
LEE SENTELL
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common se...
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THE SIXTH SENSE IS THE COMMON-SENSE !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS
Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR.
Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
HENRY WHEELER SHAW
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS
The limit of common sense is always on the scepter of power.
SORIN CERIN
People think common sense is common - but it's not.
DON CHERRY
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
LYN KAROL
To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
JAMES ATLAS
I'm happy to put it behind us. Everything was kind of put on hold.
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Common sense tells you that with inexperienced drivers on the road, anything we can do to keep their...
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We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange hous...
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[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
CLIVE JAMES
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwea...
CHARLIE PIERCE
Common sense ain't common.
WILL ROGERS
A Common Man who has Common Sense is better qualified to Lead than a Leader who has no sense of the ...
J.J. BOWLERS
If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement.
GARY DOER
Unfortunately you can't rely on common sense when it comes to highway-safety laws.
LISA LEWIS
Common Sense is very uncommon.
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People let their common sense go on vacation before they do. It's easy to get caught up in the whole...
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are int...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS
In the world of Investing, common sense is far from common.
CHARLES BENNETT SACHS
Think about it. It's common sense.
DAVID OTTERSTEIN
O God, that man should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.
JUDAH FREED
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
GIFFORD PINCHOT
'Common sense isn't common place'.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology ...
ESTHER DYSON
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones...
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The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no...
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Generally what is right and what is wrong is common sense; but that generality of right and wrong is...
JUSTIN APPEL
This is too complicated. What about I shoot him? If he comes back, he really likes me.
JOHN RINGO
Common sense is genius in homespun.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold.
JOSEPH ABOOD
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
DAVID DEUTSCH
There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.
KRISTIN ACCIPITER
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justic...
IAN MCEWAN
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEIN
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEIN
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
ANON.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
DESCARTES
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is t...
F. L. LUCAS
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
C. E. STOWE
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense
VOLTAIRE
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to
GEORGE SEATON
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
ED HOWE
In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of soci...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and ra...
THOMAS PAINE
A person can be made to awake to own senses only to the extent s/he is not fake to the people.
ANUJ SOMANY
There is a chalk outline being drawn around common sense, and most people cannot even identify the v...
DENNIS MILLER
At least Nebraska is doing that. Nebraska does show some common sense.
JOHN PINKERTON
If every human is blessed with common sense by the creator, the world would have been a much better ...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary c...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
A person speaks about his or her level of COMMON SENSE by showing the depth of reverence towards the...
ANUJ SOMANY
It does not make any sense to talk with a common sense to a person who has almost all thinking commo...
ANUJ SOMANY
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD
Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're see...
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One idea that everybody who has common sense ought to agree on is the last thing we need is higher g...
KEN MEHLMAN
We all use our five physical senses on a daily basis but sometimes forget common sense.
JAIME CONTRERAS
Common sense is for our lack of wisdom.
MONK FROST
The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.
KATHRYN SMITH
It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.
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The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and...
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY
I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY
There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY
Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY
The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O
I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY