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Image of Joseph A. Schumpeter
Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.
- Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Image of Tom Robbins
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
- Tom Robbins
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Image of Tina Turner
If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be. Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.
- Tina Turner
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Image of Ronald Reagan
Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Bill Watterson
I've got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
- Bill Watterson
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Image of Wendell Berry
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
- Wendell Berry
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Image of Joan Rivers
Never buy a fur from a vegetarian.
- Joan Rivers
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Image of Rakim
It 's amazing how Allah made the mind to the point where we almost alike me and you, we almost see the same. But we got different aspects of things. Certain things are what they call common sense. Allah made it like that meaning there's only one mind, be we all occupy it. Some of us dig into it a little deeper. Some of us are lazy on it. There's only one right and one wrong.
- Rakim
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Image of Lord Chesterfield
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Image of David Berg
Heaven is a pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place!
- David Berg
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Image of Jimmy Carter
Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
- Jimmy Carter
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Image of Lewis Carroll
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
- Lewis Carroll
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Image of Jimmy Carter
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
- Jimmy Carter
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Image of Ha-Joon Chang
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.
- Ha-Joon Chang
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Image of Nachman of Breslov
Common sense is strengthened by joy.
- Nachman of Breslov
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Image of Charlie Munger
Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.
- Charlie Munger
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Image of Oswald Chambers
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.
- Oswald Chambers
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Image of Dana Gould
Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.
- Dana Gould
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Image of John Calvin
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
- John Calvin
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Image of Jimmy Carter
And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
- Jimmy Carter
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Image of Winston Churchill
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Susanne Katherina Langer
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
- Susanne Katherina Langer
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Image of Margaret Deland
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
- Margaret Deland
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Image of William Carey
...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I thought it reasonable that I should seek to work where the work was most abundant and the workers fewest.
- William Carey
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Image of Ted Cruz
What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.
- Ted Cruz
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Image of Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is the measure of the possible.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Image of Emily Dickinson
Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
- Emily Dickinson
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Image of Kingsley Amis
Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
- Kingsley Amis
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Image of Dorothy Day
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
- Dorothy Day
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Image of Emily Dickinson
I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.
- Emily Dickinson
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Image of Jay Roach
[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.
- Jay Roach
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Evan Esar
The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.
- Evan Esar
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Image of Euripides
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
- Euripides
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Image of Albert Einstein
Common sense needs constant reappraisal.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Euripides
Common sense is the best prophet.
- Euripides
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Image of Albert Einstein
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Frederick Lenz
Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.
- Frederick Lenz
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Image of Evan Esar
There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
- Evan Esar
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Image of William O. Douglas
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.
- William O. Douglas
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Image of Evan Esar
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.
- Evan Esar
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Image of Albert Einstein
Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of George Eliot
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
- George Eliot
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Image of Albert Einstein
Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is as rare as genius.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Temple Grandin
Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.
- Temple Grandin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
The problem with common sense is, it isn't.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Franz Grillparzer
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Image of Suzy Kassem
Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.
- Suzy Kassem
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