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“Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.”

Needs Wells Use Able Fall Enjoy Sides Water Common Quality Tree Products Protect Species Woods Common Sense Harvest Water Quality

Author:John Hancock

“Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.”

“There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.”

Use Common One Thing Pure Logic Common Sense

Author:Alan Cooper

“Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.”

Littles Use Dies Fall Lost Speak Common Comfort Ears Phrases Little Things

Book:Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts

Source: Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts

“All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.”

Use Purpose Easy Common Quality Proportion Divided Quantity Decay Pledge Susceptible Alterations

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.”

People Way Want States Facts Use Problem Turns Force Community Common Core Satisfied Locals Agency Department Throat Requirements Suggestions Mandates Local Community Common Core

Author:Marco Rubio

“The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.”

Needs Doe Use Used Common Weapons Nonviolence Clay Superwoman

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.”

Use Force Common Disobedience Civil Disobedience Satyagraha Use Of Force

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.”

People Trying May Real Use Bigs Happens Common Novel Events Response Real Life Setting Settings Realistic Melodrama Big Events

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common sense. Or that we should not attack anyone physically when we suffer a depressing defeat.”

Ifs Should May Stills Use Suffering Individual Common Teach Successful Player Team Football Weak Defeat Common Sense Being Successful Depressing

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.”

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Author:George Carlin

“Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.”

Use Common Enemy Weapons

Author:Voltaire

“We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.”

Should Littles Use Language Easy Common

Author:John Wesley

“It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.”

Thinking Mean Use Problem Would Be Common Nice Finals Common Sense

Author:John Hughes