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Yet by the time Harris was repackaging transactional analysis as self-help, common sense took a backseat to idealism.

Instead, Golden State subdued the New York crowd by choosing Curry with the seventh selection, and the Knicks, going against the grain and positional common sense, took a power forward, Jordan Hill.

He was the daffy Colorado man (the "Rocky Mountain Rambo", we're reminded) who, with no training, supplies or common sense, took it upon himself to travel to Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden.

I wanted to tell everyone on the aircraft what they were missing, but common sense took over, and I assumed that such a mission (going from seat to seat to inform my 20-or-so fellow passengers of a striking sight out the window) would violate one of the many in-flight rules instituted after the very same attack that the blue lights were meant to commemorate.

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When things settle down and common sense takes over, the buyback may not get done".

"Strong defense, common sense, take care of our vets," he rhymed.

The pair were watchful to begin with, but once in they combined aggression with common sense, taking their side to 79 without loss in the 15th over.

Common sense takes leave of uncommon intelligence when, on the lam in Cambodia from Senate subcommittee hearings and civil-liberties lawsuits, West trades passports with a wealthy businessman who convinces him the swap will make all his troubles go away.

Mr. Smith, whose coming book, "When the Sirens Were Silent," is about the failed warning system during last year's tornado in Joplin, Mo., said people needed to make use of weather warnings available on their smartphones and common sense take cover when the sky looks bad — to avoid fatal storms.

It's time to put down the deduction-colored goggles, and let reason and common sense take over.

But, in contrast to behaviorism, functionalism's characterization of mental states in terms of their roles in the production of behavior grants them the causal efficacy that common sense takes them to have.

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