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1 " Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature. "
2 " not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. "
― Thomas Jefferson , The Declaration of Independence
3 " Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks. "
4 " I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. "
― Virginia Woolf , The Common Reader
5 " For god sake, open your eyes...the truth is crimes are real... the trouble is real... the horror is real... OPEN THE FUCKING EYES, you have freedom of speech, freedom do go to jail... My favourite characters are this in the jail!If you ask me with what I will open my eyes, my answer is with the critical edition The Leuchter Reports: Critical Editionby Fred A. Leuchter, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, The Common Sense by Thomas Paine "
― Deyth Banger
6 " If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. "
― Henry A. Wallace
7 " You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick. "
― Anne Carson , Red Doc>
8 " The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. "
― Henry Ward Beecher
9 " 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. "
10 " The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. "
