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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
Candice Olson
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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
Robert M. Hutchins
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
B. F. Skinner
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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman
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Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Marilyn vos Savant
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I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond his normal tetchiness, there were no more than a half-dozen moments of actual condemnation from him. He understood lies and also why you lied, and there was an absolution there that is very, very appealing.
Hugh Laurie
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E. Gladstone
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Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.


Naveen Jain
Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.
Jason Biggs
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It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
Robert Byrd
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
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Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.


Anthony Anderson
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.


An Wang
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.


Ben Carson
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.


Jean de la Bruyere
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Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.


Frank O'Hara
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