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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
E. F. Benson
Life
Time
Woman
Genius
Queen
Gift
Simplicity
Mother
Rare
Sense
Guide
Alike
Brought
Had
She
Private
Been
Infallible
Private Life
End
Up
Any
Common
Which
Common Sense
Victoria
Public
Utmost
Her
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
John Warner
Judgment
Sense
Last-Minute
Member
Tried
No Reason
Individual
Outraged
Through
House
Principles
Returns
Am
Traditional
Provision
American
Confidentiality
Common
Tax
Breach
Common Sense
Tax Returns
Act
Measure
Reason
Violates
We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
Life
Home
Relationship
Man
Woman
Marriage
Better
Mother
Father
Sense
Believe
Definition
Only
Mention
Moreover
Study
Between
Exist
Very
Committed
Stable
Common
Children
After
Common Sense
Loving
Fare
Show
Raised
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas
Art
Nature
Tired
World
Men
Sense
Everything
Civilization
Part
Like
Because
Came
Modern
Common
Tire
Literature
Common Sense
Turn
Much
Wars
Whose
Two
World Wars
Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
Fred L. Turner
Work
Trust
Work Hard
Sense
Instincts
Common
Afraid
Common Sense
Use
Your
Hard
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
Charles D. Broad
Sense
Says
Independently
Tables
Perceive
Exist
Common
Anyone
Happens
Whether
Common Sense
Them
Chairs
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
Science
Money
Long
First
Sense
State
Paradox
Worthlessness
Poets
Absolute
Known
Equation
Becomes
Essence
Common
Famous
Psychoanalysis
Common Sense
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
Nicola Cornick
Writing
Own
Sense
Pen
Though
Would
Would-Be
Something
My Own
Write
Name
Sophia
Sort
Sounds
Historical
Very
Did
Pseudonym
Common
Common Sense
Use
Started
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
Peter Latham
Master
Sense
Medicine
Common
Common Sense
Workman
Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
John Edward Christopher Hill
Old
Young
Sense
Varies
Common
Common Sense
Among
A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
Efua Dorkenoo
Change
Together
Own
Stage
Sense
Backgrounds
Visible
More
Purpose
Push
Shared
Highly
Global
Identity
Within
Effectively
Families
Common
Different
Different Backgrounds
Common Sense
Communities
Help
Activists
Bring
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