But it does require that our elected officials have the common-sense courage to incorporate some of the biggest concerns of the minority within the solutions offered by the majority.
Yet individual acts of courage, common sense and benevolence emerge from the chaos, intransigency and vileness.
- from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Star Trek weighs in, with utter disdain,on those who use rules to trump common sense and courage.
Egypt needs foreign investment, a decent legal system and an open society.Perhaps Mr Sisi, now more firmly ensconced in power, will surprise his doubters with a surge of common sense and courage on all these fronts.
Perhaps what made it easier for Amanat and Abhay to use common sense and courage on August 5 was their deep commitment to the community they love.
What they have in common is the courage to bet on a big idea and a conviction that they don't have to sacrifice our air, water and land and our children's future in pursuit of profits today.
We are overdue in responding to this uniquely American problem, but Amanat and Abhay are role models to follow: they acted with courage, common sense, and with commitment to their community.
The heroic actions of Amanat and Abhay are worthy of similar speculation, and it is my ardent hope that all of us as Americans can deploy their courage, common sense, and commitment to community to reexamine gun policy in our country.
Those of us who love great cities applaud Mayor Livingstone's courage and common sense.
But in all the writers I admire the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
