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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
Francis Spufford
You
Culture
Illusion
Pretending
Sense
Fluffy
Our
Thoroughly
Systematic
Demands
Contemporary
Well
Common
After
Common Sense
While
Might
Requires
Dispense
Belief
It can be frustrating that, despite widespread support for common sense gun safety measures, Congress is moving at a snail's pace. But remember that great change takes time.
Chris Murphy
Time
Great
Change
Remember
Safety
Gun
Sense
Congress
Great Change
Despite
Takes
Support
Snail
Common
Pace
Common Sense
Frustrating
Moving
Measures
Widespread
It's not science; it's common sense: it's playing the right players in the right positions for the style of football you want to implement in a specific game.
Phil Neville
You
Game
Science
Style
Sense
Positions
Football
Implement
Common
Want
Common Sense
Specific
Right
Players
Playing
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
Esther Dyson
You
Technology
First
Sense
Think
About
How
Leave
Doing
Common
Hold
Common Sense
Your
Enhance
It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.
Theo Paphitis
People
Sense
Most
Common
Common Sense
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
Robert Gottlieb
Good
You
Editing
Sense
Simply
Qualification
Reader
Editor
Any
Common
Common Sense
Why
Application
Number
I know from firsthand experience that claims of non-existent voter fraud are used to raise fears, steamroll facts, and overcome common sense, resulting in laws that have nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination.
Marc Veasey
Experience
Overcome
Fears
Sense
Nothing
Everything
Claims
Fraud
Security
Laws
Resulting
Facts
Voter
Voter Fraud
Know
Suppression
Non-Existent
Firsthand
Ballot
Discrimination
Common
In-Laws
Common Sense
Used
Raise
There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
Bill Hunter
Courage
Sense
Bit
Only
Mystique
Common
Common Sense
Acting
This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
Sam Brownback
Good
Sense
Foreign
Foreign Oil
Go
Effort
Just
Common
Dependent
Oil
Where
Want
Wants
Common Sense
Public
Us
Bipartisan
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
Lyall Watson
You
Challenge
Invent
Sense
Group
Living
Unlikely
Small
Small Group
Exist
Common
Common Sense
Elephants
Things
Belong
Credulity
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
Mike Crapo
Great
Independence
Sense
Great Britain
Thomas
Advocating
Common
Common Sense
January
Paine
Britain
To me it is just common sense that we should be making apprenticeships readily available to every young person who wants to go down that route - and encouraging people to consider taking this path just as readily as we would encourage someone to look into a university degree.
Layla Moran
Me
People
Path
Degree
Young
Sense
Down
Every
Consider
Would
Someone
Taking
Look
Readily
Making
Go
Encourage
Encouraging
Person
Just
Common
Wants
Common Sense
Available
Young Person
Should
Who
Route
University
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
Gail Porter
You
Yourself
Treat
Sense
Pay
Others
Types
Earnings
Per
Someone
Like
Know
Go
Lot
Celebrity
Common
Cent
Common Sense
Your
Why
Treated
Government must become lean and efficient and customer friendly. It must begin to pay its bills. Liberals believe this is radical and cruel. The rest of us think it is common sense.
Stephen Moore
Government
Rest
Become
Sense
Pay
Radical
Believe
Think
Liberals
Must
Cruel
Lean
Friendly
Begin
Efficient
Common
Common Sense
Customer
Us
Bills
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
Joe Barton
Try
Will
Sense
Energy
Some
Commerce
Committee
Common
Common Sense
EPA
Use
Regulations
Chairman
Bring
Position
Hersh's account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
Peter Bergen
Simple
Sense
Facts
Nonsense
Account
Accounts
Common
Common Sense
Bin
Raid
Multitude
Inconvenient
Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is simply risible. Bin Laden's principal goal was the overthrow of the Saudi royal family as a result of which his Saudi citizenship was revoked as far back as 1994.
Peter Bergen
Family
You
Result
Sense
Living
Back
Tell
Arabia
Would
Citizenship
He
Simply
Idea
Principal
His
Goal
Overthrow
Common
Expenses
Which
Common Sense
While
Far
Paying
Bin
Royal
Saudi
Royal Family
Saudi Arabia
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
Mac Thornberry
Environmental
Balance
Political
Sense
Energy
Restore
Proper
Common
Common Sense
Energy Production
Agendas
Should
Production
Regulation
Based
They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
Wendy Long
Government
Good
Constitution
People
Free
Limited Government
Sense
Believe
Our
Markets
Those
Free Markets
Free People
New
Know
Principles
Limited
Always
Lots
American
York
Going
Stood
Common
New York
Common Sense
Stand
Who
Right
Here
It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.
Maynard Webb
You
Better
Seen
Judgment
Own
Control
Sense
Everyone
Destiny
System
About
Results
Individual
Freeing
Know
Because
Makes
How
Passionate
Yield
Common
Common Sense
Create
Successes
Your
Helped
It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
Carolyn McCarthy
Country
Sense
Airplane
Purchase
Guns
Someone
Allowed
He
Toy
Real
Questions
Selling
Common
Children
Stores
Wants
Common Sense
Board
Asked
Who
Many
Even
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
William Hague
Marriage
People
Independence
Country
Sense
Savings
Spending
Only
Supporting
Know
Encouraging
Afford
Rewarding
Common
Common Sense
Things
It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care.
Mark Takano
Care
Sense
Small
Small Businesses
Allowing
Common
Tax
Tax Cuts
Common Sense
Turned
Cuts
Businesses
Medicare
We have not provided our frontline supervisors and managers and individuals with the proper procedures that would allow them to use their common sense.
Oscar Munoz
Sense
Our
Would
Proper
Allow
Individuals
Provided
Managers
Common
Procedures
Common Sense
Them
Use
For me, it's common sense to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Empathy is a broad concept, but how do you get there? People get there differently. I get there by truly building a little trust and connection. You'll tell me something, I'll act on it, and then that builds on itself.
Oscar Munoz
Me
You
Trust
People
Treat
Building
Sense
Other
Broad
Tell
Would
Something
Empathy
Like
Concept
Builds
How
Truly
Itself
Get
Common
Common Sense
Little
Then
Act
Connection
Differently
Treated
South Dakota, like a lot of rural states, small states, there are small cities with a very big work ethic, very common sense approach. That has certainly shaped me.
Kevin Brady
Work
Me
Big
Sense
Approach
States
Cities
Rural
Small
Shaped
Like
South
Lot
South Dakota
Very
Common
Common Sense
Work Ethic
Ethic
Certainly
Dakota
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