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Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

— Stuart Chase S. I. Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action (1952)

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Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

Citizens of a modern society need [...] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat.

Stuart Chase in S. I. Hayakawa (1949)

Political democracy can remain if it confines itself to all but economic matters.

The Economy of Abundance (1934)

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