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Examples
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And since each direction corresponds to what we call a SENSE -- through one of his senses, and through that sense alone, is the artist usually wedded to art.
Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900
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Sometimes COMMON SENSE is worth more than an advanced degree.
Economic Arguments, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Seems that COMMON SENSE is not a requisite of the Republican Party these days …
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The lower classes in civilised countries, like all classes in uncivilised countries, are clearly wanting in the nicer part of those feelings which, taken together, we call the SENSE of morality.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Walter Bagehot 1851
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Now when the action is present, the conception it produceth is called SENSE, and the thing by whose action the same is produced is called the OBJECT of sense.
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Though it must be confessed this method of arguing does not so much prove that there is no extension or colour in an outward object, as that we do not know by SENSE which is the TRUE extension or colour of the object.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley 1719
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Like me putting "SENSE" then "SINCE" and Dawgmeat comes and trash talks about me being stupid.
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We need to dump these career politicians from both sides and get some representatives that are capable of using some COMMON SENSE!
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At least it would SOUND better and make MORE SENSE.
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Majority Rules … … …. .the older you get the more this will ALL MAKE SENSE!!
American Idol: Adam Lambert & Kris Allen Fight To The Actual Death 2009
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