Common sense isn't.
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| I made one great mistake in my life—when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made … but there was some justification—the danger that the Germans would make them. |
| ~ Quoted by Ted Morgan FDR Simon & Schuster 85 ~ |
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| If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 33, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “The Marquis de Grandvin” (posthumous), p. 348, Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces, The Works of Herman Melville, vol. 13, ed. Raymond M. Weaver (1924). ~ |
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| Just as the well-trained elephant lets the king mount him and ride him into the fray, so does the well-disciplined man, the best of men, patiently endure harsh words. |
| ~The Elephant ~ |
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| You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 277. ~ |
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| Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus. Part i. ~ |
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| Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 502. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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