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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 Stuart Chase in S. I. Hayakawa (1949)

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

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

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

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

The Economy of Abundance (1934)

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