Common sense isn't.
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| Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate. |
| ~ John Dryden, Virgil, Æneid. Line 1. ~ |
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| "I think not to-day, dear. Another day." "To-morrow?" said Roo hopefully. "We'll see," said Kanga. "You're always seeing, and nothing every happens," said Roo sadly. |
| ~ -- The story of my life... _The House at Pooh Corner_, p. 112 ~ |
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| There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 40, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| The mind is restless and cunning, difficult to calm, difficult to guard. As the archer makes his arrows straight, the wise straighten out their minds. |
| ~Mind ~ |
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| The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather or who manages to get people to let them do it to them To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must WANT to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
| ~ -The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi., Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ |
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| In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year. |
| ~ President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, message to Congress, April 27, 1942.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942, p. 221 (1950). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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