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  2. Thomas Paine - Wikipedia

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    Loyalists vigorously attacked Common Sense; one attack, titled Plain Truth (1776), by Marylander James Chalmers, said Paine was a political quack [50] and warned that without monarchy, the government would "degenerate into democracy". [51] Even some American revolutionaries objected to Common Sense; late in life John Adams called it a ...

  3. The American Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Crisis series appeared in a range of publication formats, sometimes (as in the first four) as stand-alone pamphlets and sometimes in one or more newspapers. [9] In several cases, too, Paine addressed his writing to a particular audience, while in other cases he left his addressee unstated, writing implicitly to the American public (who were, of course, his actually intended audience at all ...

  4. Common Sense (American magazine) - Wikipedia

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    Common Sense was founded in 1932 by two Yale University graduates, Selden Rodman, and Alfred M. Bingham, son of United States Senator Hiram Bingham III. [3] Its contributors were mostly progressives from a wide range of the left-right spectrum, from agrarian populists, "insurgent" Republicans and Farmer-Labor Party activists to independent progressives, Democrat mavericks and democratic ...

  5. Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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    Hoyle also wrote science fiction. In his first novel, The Black Cloud, most intelligent life in the universe takes the form of interstellar gas clouds; they are surprised to learn that intelligent life can also form on planets. He wrote a television series, A for Andromeda, which was also published as a novel.

  6. Common sense - Wikipedia

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    The common sense is where this comparison happens, and this must occur by comparing impressions (or symbols or markers; σημεῖον, sēmeîon, 'sign, mark') of what the specialist senses have perceived. [16] The common sense is therefore also where a type of consciousness originates, "for it makes us aware of having sensations at all". And ...

  7. United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    In January 1776, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense, which described the uphill battle against the British for independence as a challenging but achievable and necessary objective, was published in Philadelphia. [27] In Common Sense, Paine wrote the famed phrase:

  8. Why Common wrote a song about a Cincinnati rap group ... - AOL

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    Back when Common was known as 12-year-old Lonnie Rashid Lynn, he wrote his first rap about a group of rappers called the Bond Hill Crew.

  9. Smedley Butler - Wikipedia

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    His views on the subject are summarized in the following passage from the November 1935 issue of the socialist magazine Common Sense: [15] I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a ...