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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered; what has been said of Him is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.