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I Do: Someone’s Nicked A Fair Share Of Mine

Posted in Other Blogs, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , on December 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense:  no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
    —    René Descartes
[This quote was found at a blog I follow:  “A Pondering Mind”
The blog location is: https://aponderingmind.org/
The original post is located at:  https://aponderingmind.org/2020/05/09/common-sense/
Please visit the original site / blog if you have some free time.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2023 I Do: Someone’s Nicked A Fair Share Of Mine
2023 Warriors: Game 21 Win (Record: 10W-11L)
2022 Even If It’s To The Precipice
2021 And Ever
Love Wouldn’t Lie (Look What You’ve Done To Me)
2020 Why I Used To Jog At Dawn
Seeing You In His Arms (I Want You Back)
2019 The Most Pressing Task
Don’t Mess With The Lady
2018 Seek A Clear View
2017 Living With Myself
2016 Still Looking In Mirrors?
2015 Fear No Evil
2014 And Nothing Can Be As Tragic As…
2013 Your Tax Dollars At Work
2012 Historically Unacceptable
2011 Niners Are NFC West Division Champions!!
The Essence Of Leadership

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Skeletons In The Closet

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , on October 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.
    —     Robert M. Pirsig
From:  “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:  An Inquiry Into Values“
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A Little Bit Of Common Sense Is Expected

Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , on October 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State.  Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other.  That is the common sense of the matter.  Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.
    —     Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
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A Still Unproven Postulate

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 4, 2023| 3 Comments »

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
    —    Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
[To quote Winston Churchill: “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.  No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.  Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…”    —    kmab]
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Republican Governors Don’t Help

Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2021| Leave a Comment »

What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos…  the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man…
   —    Robert M. Pirsig
[I’m looking at you Texas and Mississippi…  How many “extra” / more have to die before you tell your folks to wear masks?    —    kmab]
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Voices Of The Past

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.  Ghosts and more ghosts.  Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.
    —    Robert M. Pirsig
From his book:  “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance“
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And Honest Politicians

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged , , , , on October 27, 2018| 2 Comments »

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
     —    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If Only Common Sense Were More Common

Posted in Leadership, My Journal, Quotes, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2015| 2 Comments »

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
   —    Walter Lippmann
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Useful Confrontation

Posted in Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, Reading, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

One of the primary virtues of commonsense reasoning is its resiliency.  It adapts well when confronted with new facts about a situation.
    ––    Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere
Quoted from:  “Out Of Their Minds“
[The problem is too few people have developed commonsense and many of those who have don’t believe their eyes when confronted with new facts.   (See In Broken Images)   —    kmab]
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When Phenomena Are Different

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Science and Learning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.  We have to understand what we mean when we say that the phenomena are the same when we move the apparatus to a new position.  We mean that we move everything that we believe is relevant;  if the phenomenon is not the same, we suggest that something relevant has not been moved, and we proceed to look for it.
    —    Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands
Quoted from:  “The Feynman Lectures On Physics“
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