Sentences with phrase «lives as common sense»

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Live in Switzerland, where going against common sense is extremely frowned upon as an objective evil.

I am really angry that religious people are unable to face the facts of life, reality, science, reason, logic, and that this causes them to waste their time, my time, vital resources, and to interfere in things they have no business interfering in as they violate the law, common sense, and refuse to respect any other people.

~ G.K. Chesterton, (May 29, 1874 — June 14, 1936) a prolific English writer also known as the «Apostle of Common Sense» who convertd to Catholicism after being a Unitarian most of his life.

Drawing on the wisdom of thinkers as diverse as St. Augustine and Leon Kass, and on the common sense of such figures as Charlie Brown and former NFL linebacker Bill Romanowski, Schall wittily argues that «unserious activities» help make human life worth living.

From a common sense perspective, I would say that the idea that sea life evolved into mammalian and other land dwelling life is just as miraculous as god creating distinct life is.

Dave Roberts visits Abundant Life, Bradford, to discover the DNA of one of Britain's fastest growing churches and why they want common sense as much as... More

So could you honestly say that you don't think anyone has ever become religious, especially much later on in life as the end isn't far off (and even statistics that common sense would tell you should trend the opposite way, ie, someone who's gone 70, 75 years not believing in god or heaven, decides then to become a devote Christian?

Dave Roberts visits Abundant Life, Bradford, to discover the DNA of one of Britain's fastest growing churches and why they want common sense as much as they want miracles.

It is our duty as Americans to know and appreciate the systems of belief — the mythic cosmologies, the scientific laws, the common - sense attitudes — that in times past have served to give coherence and purpose to our life together.

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

Therefore society (government) compiles laws so as to prevent bad things from happening which should be common sense... and since «common sense» has to come from somewhere... as I said, it comes from the life experience that you acquire over time... you are not born with it and you do not derive it from some magical, mythical, invisible man - in - the - sky.

I am not, and should not be, forced to live under its laws, except those which agree with common sense morality such as crimes against others, theft, etc..

There are no moral absolutes, but there are such things as empathy, sympathy, logic, reason, common sense, and science to give me a much more effective and intelligent set of morals to live by.

Although pure mathematics and impure practice thus combine to suggest that living things, human selves and societies, should not be pictured on the model of Chepstow Castle — as though they were ping - pong balls, single shells that either insulate or shatter — our generalized common - sense notions of inside and outside by and large remain early Norman in their simplicity.

We are inveterately political in the sense that we have a fundamental concern for our common life together as a community, nation, and people.

In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

The acts of the earthly Jesus, for all their remembered beauty, were recognized as but the casual and partial manifestations of a love which only one supreme act had been able fully to express: He who had shared the nature and the name of God had for man's sake denied himself in a sense in which only God could: he had emptied himself, becoming a common man, and as a man had suffered both life and death, even the death of the cross...

people, really, in common sense, if one falls into prey of fearful, scare tactics like these mind molesting words that don't even qualify as rational prophecy, one forgets to follow ones joy and excitement and one becomes a fear mongerer who loses out in the joy of life, so sad.

Using common human experience as a base, Niebuhr sought to show that the secular view of life is inadequate: the secular analysis of man made less sense than the biblical one.

It presents as common sense what is actually a historically rare notion: that the market is a self - regulating device whose rules exist independent of common agreements about the conduct of social life.

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

There is indeed a quality of geeky isolation from reality, common sense, and the fullness of life that I see as a motif in atheist and Darwin activism alike.

That the narrowness of the «lower experience» has been often considered the meaning of happiness by common sense while security and order in life are extolled as virtue is itself a tragic testimony to the folly of human timidity, as analyzed below.

It is in this sense that I consider globalization as one of the major parts of the reality of our lives and of the common context m which we journey together towards the new century and millennium.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity.

Any sense of common life nearly vanished, and the faculty adopted a kind of social libertarianism — it kept the common educational core as minimal as possible.

The only luck was clubs having to live by their means, that isn't even luck as it sounds like common sense and all is fair.

Eschewing the extremes occupied by the loudest voices in the national concussion and youth sport conversation, the ones who either deny there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed (who they characterize as the «just a knock to the head» crowd) or have become so convinced that contact sports inevitably result in lifelong disability that they are so fundamentally unsafe that they should be abolished, they opt instead for the common sense middle ground - a place where MomsTEAM and I have been all along - a magical place where it is possible to have a «more thoughtful, science - based» dialog about the role of sports in our kids» lives.

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But we lived in different times back then, and this was common sense within the medical community as well our society.

«We can not measure the influence that one artist or another has on the child's sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sight of life...» ~ Charlotte Mason, Original Homeschooling Series, Volume 1, Home Education

These common sense policy investments are designed, and in many cases already proven, to support parents as they undertake one of the most daunting and delicate jobs of their lives: raising their children.

Apply the common sense test here: if a particular food caused all babies problems, then women who live in an area that use that food heavily as part of their local cuisine would have very unhappy babies!

As a result, much of this book reads like a long list of well - meaning, but short - lived and quicklyforgotten, initiatives, such as Listening to Britain, Kitchen Table Conservatism and the Common Sense RevolutioAs a result, much of this book reads like a long list of well - meaning, but short - lived and quicklyforgotten, initiatives, such as Listening to Britain, Kitchen Table Conservatism and the Common Sense Revolutioas Listening to Britain, Kitchen Table Conservatism and the Common Sense Revolution.

Join hosts Mark Walsh and Dave Goodfriend as they talk progressive politics, the environment, foreign policy, common sense business, beer, sports and all kinds of smack in front of a live audience.

Conference believes that the lives of children and adults are being put at risk as a result of reckless and simplistic pronouncements by government on the need for a «common sense» approach to health and safety in schools.

«I will serve as he served — putting people and common sense over politics and division to ensure we all can live, work and raise a family here.»

The package of common sense gun control measures put forward by NYLGVP, including my bill closing the bump stock loophole, will reaffirm New York as a leader in the fight against gun violence and save lives.

Am highly educated with several University Degrees & with much «common sense», & speak several Languages as a result of having lived worldwide & throughout many US...

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He's determined to ride despite the advice of his widower father, Tim (Tim Jandreau, Brady's real - life father), who is a genial gambler, and his sister Lilly (Brady's real - life sister), who has Asperger's Syndrome and whose sunny, common sense remarks serve as the voice of reason.

The battle between fervent religiosity and intense, common - sense atheism rages in a small County Sligo coastal village as the local priest (Brendan Gleeson's Father James) is politely informed — in the confession box, no less — that he has seven days to live.

Miss Sloane Rated R for language and some sexuality Rotten Tomatoes Score: 71 % In this box office dud, Jessica Chastain is a high power Washington lobbyist who tries to force through a bill that would enact common - sense gun regulations, only to find herself in the battle of her life as she fights the gun manufacturers.

This film seems to live in an alternate universe where common sense and international law doesn't exist, as if it's a fan - made film.

Standing in the Shadows of Fail: Detroit lived up to its reputation as the place where common sense — and care for the futures of children — goes to die.

Lin was eager to give people a framework for enjoying life, and he built it using the wisdom of ancient Chinese literature as well as a large helping of common sense.

We did a little research and found even more titles that you can't read on a Kindle, Nook, iPad (no matter what version it is) or any other e-book reader, such as The Life of Pi by Yann Martell, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock, Creatures That Once Were Men by Maxim Gorky and Being and Time by Martin Heidegger.

However, if we all lived in a land called «Common Sense,» I'd think the two companies — and all the other potential eBook reader and Netbook makers — would agree on an open version of the Amazon - owned ebook mobipocket format as iPhones and Kindles both display the format.