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Everything is God's will. But there's a certain amount of common sense that God gives to individuals to prepare for certain things. (Quote by - Charles Steele Jr)

I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I mean, some model walks down the runway in an impossible outfit, and I state the obvious no one is going to wear that and people are like, you're brilliant!. (Quote by - David Wolfe)

People around the state seem very satisfied with his centrist, common-sense leadership. (Quote by - Chad Clanton)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Common sense says there's going to be a little bit of a letup (with a 28-3 lead). You try not to let it happen . . . you stop the momentum by getting third downs on offense, and we didn't do it. (Quote by - Mike Shanahan)

The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process. (Quote by - George H. Gallup)

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. (Quote by - Giorgio de Chirico)

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. (Quote by - Edward Abbey)

Across the board, conservatives believe that if we're going to fund the entire recovery of New Orleans, this is an opportunity to do urban renewal in a common-sense way,. (Quote by - Tom Feeney)

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work. (Quote by - Gary Shapiro)

It's not an issue we've had in any shape or form here. I don't want to speculate per se of this becoming a bigger phenomenon, but it would be fair to say that if there were more and more of these coins or pins put in the ice, then it would be something we'd need to make sure there's common sense and it doesn't get out of hand, really in line with all our clean-venue policies. (Quote by - Giselle Davies)

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy. (Quote by - William Orville Douglas)

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Sylvia Cochran has been providing thousands of Families Online Magazine readers each month with insightful advice about Christian Parenting. We are pleased to launch her new column Common Sense Parenting. (Quote by - Geraldine Jensen)

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Common sense is the measure of the possible. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)

We haven't been terribly specific, except to say that the application of common sense is desirable. In the end, the House seems likely to adopt new rules, and then we'll all abide by them. In the meantime, it would be good to be wise. (Quote by - Larry Neal)

Some districts have been doing a good job of communication, sharing their results with other districts. Others haven't been doing that so well. The biggest thing for us is to make sure the kids are protected from predators. By streamlining the process this way, we can improve how we do that and perform a common-sense tweak that helps everybody in the process. (Quote by - Towson Fraser)

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)

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