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- It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
- Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
- Unknown
- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W.C. Fields
- It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I saw the same dynamic in our family - a dysfunctional family - mirrored in the country in the 1980's. If you take this family, and you put them up there as the First Family - if you look at what the dynamic is in the family - you might have a pretty good sense of how it's going to trickle down.
- Patty Davis
- He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a professional sense. People like that will do anything to hold on to their jobs.
- Liz Trotta on Dan Rather
- Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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