But I relish the way that, elsewhere, he employs his own literary common sense, stating at one point: "Half the job of learning to write is getting to know the sound of your own voice".
Paine criticizes the tyrannical actions of the Church as he had those of governments in the Rights of Man and Common Sense, stating that "the Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient Mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue".
"Connecticut is, in a way, the common-sense state in asking what politicians have done and what they intend to do," Mr. Blumenthal, who is to political charisma what cold oatmeal is to haute cuisine, said at a postelection news conference Wednesday.
One woman who refused to sign the safety plan preventing contact between her two young daughters and Frederick Merrill Jessop, a bishop and leader of the ranch, told a child welfare caseworker that it was "an insult to common sense," the affidavit states.
Common Core true believers shunned the common sense idea that states, systems, schools, and teachers should all be encouraged to pick and choose the instructional components that are appropriate in their circumstances.
He began his reign on a note of resolution and common sense; he paid state debts, remitted overdue taxes, and reduced expenditures.
This is a fundamental, baseline issue rooted in common sense: "If a state wants to provide for its citizens' stronger consumer protections, it ought to be able to do so," as Obama's Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin told reporters.
Focus your common sense on the state of your body to instantly relax your muscles, stifling anger, or despair.
Nonetheless, the idea that our common sense concepts of mental states reveal an essential tie between mental states and their typical behavioral expressions is retained, and elaborated, in contemporary "analytic" functionalist theories.
"There's no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what's not an epidemic," she said, but with influenza widespread in 36 states, "common sense" suggests one.
