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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.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

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.

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

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

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

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

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.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.