Common sense isn't.
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| I think religion, ideology, economy, and political systems are all man's creation. Since they are man's creation, they must relate with human feeling and the human spirit. If they are practiced with human feeling, they fulfill some basic human aspirations. The various religions and ideologies are meant for humanity and not the opposite. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, January 11, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Tully was not so eloquent as thou, Thou nameless column with the buried base. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 110. ~ |
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| ... my soul stood erect, exultant, envisioning a new world where the light of justice for every individual will be unclouded. |
| ~ Helen Keller (1880–1968), U.S. author. As quoted in Eleanor: The Years Alone, ch. 3, by Joseph P. Lash (1972). Keller, who was deaf and blind but intellectually accomplished, wrote this in a 1948 letter to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, after reading the Declaration of Human Rights drafted by the Commission on Human Rights of the new United Nations. Roosevelt had represented the United States and had chaired the Commission. ~ |
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| I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young. |
| ~ FANNY DIXWELL HOLMES, remark to President Theodore Roosevelt at the reception preceding a dinner at the White House in honor of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, January 8, 1903.—Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, p. 362 (1944). ~ |
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| He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Letter, April 16, 1851, to Hawthorne. The Letters of Herman Melville, eds. Merrell R. Davis and William H Gilman (1960). Melville added, “For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,—why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unencumbered travelers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet bag.” ~ |
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| To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. |
| ~ Epictetus, Discourses. Chap. ii. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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