Common sense isn't.
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| Death,-a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. vi. 28. ~ |
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| [F]ermentation is a result of life without air. |
| ~ -The Physiological Theory of Fermentation, Louis Pasteur ~ |
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| The harm you do is your own doing; you create your emotional problems yourself. You yourself can turn from wrongdoing; only you can purify you. Pure or impure, it is yours to choose, for no one can purify another. |
| ~The Self ~ |
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| My choice, if you think I am making one, would at least be never to sit on a judge's bench, or beneath it, like so many of our philosophers. Aside from that, there is no dearth of opportunities for action, in the relative. Trade-unionism is today the first, and the most fruitful among them. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, The Artist And His Time, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time. |
| ~ Voltaire, Reply to General Manstein. ~ |
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| Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll Of black artillery; he comes, though late; In code corroborating Calvin’s creed And cynic tyrannies of honest kings; He comes, nor parlies; and the Town, redeemed, Gives thanks devout; nor, being thankful, heeds The grimy slur on the Republic’s faith implied, Which holds that Man is naturally good, And—more—is Nature’s Roman, never to be scourged. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The House-Top (l. 19–27). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. |
| ~ Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 8. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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