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«In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion»
Author: James Reston
(Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
War
| Keywords:
casualties, casualty, common sense, discussion, free discussion, the discussion, The Second
«If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Common sense,
Love,
Passion
| Keywords:
continual, occasional
«It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Common sense,
Education
| Keywords:
common good, common sense, thousand times
«I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
campaign, campaigned, campaigning, campaigns, campaign of, common sense, declaration, Declaration of, justifies, moratorium, political campaign
«It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
above all, admit, common sense, fails, frankly, method
«I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, common sense
«It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Common sense,
Failure,
Trying
| Keywords:
former, franklin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, frankly, President Roosevelt, Roosevelt
«It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Common sense,
Destiny,
Education
| Keywords:
Compulsory education, practically, settled
«I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.»
«It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.»
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