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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
Needs
Sense
Nothing
Distributed
More
No-One
He
Fairly
Than
Common
Common Sense
Thinks
Patterns of repetition govern each day, week, year, and lifetime. 'Personal habits' is one term we use to describe the most common of these repeated patterns. But I say these habits are sacred because they give deliberate structure to our lives. Structure gives us a sense of security. And that sense of security is the ground of meaning.
Robert Fulghum
Day
Year
Sense
Our
Our Lives
Say
Security
Give
Structure
Deliberate
Gives
Week
Habits
Sacred
Lifetime
Term
Most
Because
Govern
Repeated
Repetition
Personal
Common
Patterns
Meaning
Us
Use
Ground
Describe
Each
Each Day
Lives
I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.
Steve Harvey
Doctor
Sense
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Just
Common
Common Sense
Amount
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Thomas Aquinas
Man
Own
Others
Consider
Hesitation
Possession
Share
Without
Material
His
Common
Them
Should
Need
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
Government
Society
Security
Abolish
General
Instant
Takes
Begins
Common
Formal
Place
Interest
Produces
Act
Association
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
William Golding
Life
Love
People
Own
Sense
Rulers
One Thing
Above
Examining
Invariably
Shared
Leaders
Countries
Peril
Understand
Been
Same
Common
The One Thing
Cannot
Common Sense
Many
Found
Why
Among
Thing
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
Life
Soul
Blame
Stronger
Think
Thinking
Determines
Habit
Environment
Because
Does
Govern
Surroundings
Than
Common
Lovely
Should
Why
Things
Common sense often makes good law.
William O. Douglas
Good
Legal
Law
Sense
Makes
Often
Common
Common Sense
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian
You
People
Matters
Favorable
Missed
Leave
Arrive
Tragic
Very
Beginnings
Endings
Often
Common
Being
Fortunate
Applauded
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
Ban Ki-moon
Day
Great
History
You
Persistence
Women
Men
Men And Women
Long
Bicycle
Everywhere
Carry
Stay
Only
Purpose
Through
Throughout
Learned
Ultimately
Up
Effort
Endeavour
Any
Upright
Move
Human
Move Forward
Common
Nations
Might
Human History
Requiring
Forward
Many
Momentum
Keep
Riding
Seriousness
Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.
Claire McCaskill
Country
Own
Sense
Our
Respecting
Abandoning
Must
Guns
Laws
Prevent
Remain
Mass
Also
Does
Amendment
Common
Common Sense
While
Mean
Right
Second
Strengthen
Second Amendment
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow
Best
Side
Our
Kindly
Drifting
Dirt
Toward
Fellow
Passengers
Clinging
Friends
Same
Common
Doom
While
Who
Helpful
Speck
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
Coretta Scott King
Failure
Youth
Compassion
Sense
Invest
Colossal
Reflects
Lack
Common
Common Sense
Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.
David Boies
Great
You
People
Progress
Disagree
Great Things
Diversity
Nine
Out
Find
Embrace
Fact
Disagreeable
Ideas
Make
Accomplish
Maybe
Common
Common Ground
Ground
Things
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Day
Long
Lose
Sense
Everyone
All Day
Gets
Common
Information
Common Sense
Much
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
J. William Fulbright
Dignity
Culture
People
World
Differences
Respected
Recognized
Possible
Feared
Rather
Only
Outlook
Condemned
Than
Essential
Human
Common
Human Dignity
Peaceful
Peaceful World
Bond
Appreciated
You have to live with your decisions every day. Why live with one you're uneasy with? 'Because it'll make you money' is a common reply. But I don't think that's good enough.
Jason Fried
Good
Day
You
Every Day
Money
Live
Every
Think
Enough
Make
Because
Uneasy
Reply
Common
Decisions
Your
Why
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
Love
Music
Art
Nature
Political
Language
Boundaries
Like
Common
Transcend
Common Language
Social
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter
Good
Prevail
Made
Doors
Difficult
Those
Locked
Concentration
Intense
Behind
Common
Common Good
Interest
Against
Decisions
Special
Who
Special Interest
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
Joe Biden
Long
Community
Society
Too
Individualism
Over
Celebrated
Common
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
John Wooden
Man
True
Am
His
Just
Common
Common Man
Who
Beliefs
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Katharine Hepburn
Strength
Sense
Like
Baker
Greatest
Soup
Greatest Strength
Campbell
Brand
Common
Common Sense
Chocolate
Really
Standard
Tomato
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Robert Anton Wilson
Too Much
Stupid
Too
Totally
Accidental
Common
Much
Convinced
Resemblance
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Change
Cowardly
Crimes
Air
Most
Executioner
Perjury
Common
Meanest
Breathe
Axe
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wisdom
World
Degree
Sense
Uncommon
Calls
Common
Common Sense
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
Sarah MacLean
Best
Equality
Passion
Path
Small
Shared
Mere
Partnerships
Goal
Common
Dependent
Common Goal
Amount
Desire
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