Common sense isn't.
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| But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior. ~ |
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| This were to be truly immortal;Mto be perpetuated in our works, and not in our names. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 142, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher. ~ |
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| He makes a solitude, and calls it-peace! |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Canto ii. Stanza 20. ~ |
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| Three removes are as bad as a fire. |
| ~ Benjamin Franklin, Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757. ~ |
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| Liberty: The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address to New York Press Club, September 9, 1912. ~ |
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| Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iv. ~ |
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| A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers—a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Ed. Edgar B. Nixon, Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, Annual Address to Congress, January 3, 1936, vol. 3, pp. 153-154, The Belknap Press of Harvard University (1969). Edward M. Bennett, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Security: American-Soviet Relations, 1933-1939, p. 75, Scholarly Resources, Inc. (1985). FDR wished to impress on Congress and the American people that isolationism and unilateral arms reduction were impossible in the face of the aggressive plans of Germany, Japan, and Italy. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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