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• “LOTHIAN: So, in a little-noticed memo sent around last month, the Office of Management and Budget made what it calls commonsense changes to provide more accurate data.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010

• “She was defending what she calls commonsense conservatism.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009

• “CROWLEY: In five stops through southeastern Missouri, Talent mentioned same-sex marriage and abortion in most of them, reaching out to the base with what he calls commonsense Missouri values.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2006

• “But what we called commonsense views, after all, can be analysed and ought to be analysed.”

  The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

• “One policeman armed with persuasive reasoning and commonsense is worth six others with truncheons drawn and shouting abuse to make their points.”

  Find Shannon « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “Sadly the innocent fall prey to it, and commonsense is out the window. on March 22, 2008 at 11: 15 pm | Reply XTP”

  An Ex Traffic Biker Writes: « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “Had the word commonsense not become such a meaningless term I'd almost be tempted to use it.”

  Workers of the world, divide!

• “In striking contrast to this, the gigantic industry of advertising is to-day still controlled essentially by an amateurish impressionism, by a so-called commonsense, which is nothing but the uncritical following of a well-worn path.”

  Psychology and Social Sanity

• “I don't know when I have been so diverted; but to a person of plain commonsense like myself, the tricks and ways of these London ladies are amazingly entertaining.”

  The Semi-Attached Couple

• “Jim Butcher’s LiveJournal page: Jim lays out, in commonsense and no-nonsense fashion, one of the best, most concise distillations of story structure ideas I have ever seen.”

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