Common sense isn't.
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| [F]erments, properly so-called, are living beings, that the germs of microscopic organisms abound in the surface of all objects, in the air and in water. |
| ~ The Germ Theory and Its Applications, Louis Pasteur ~ |
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| I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Speech, April 10, 1899, Chicago. The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, ed. Brian MacArthur (1992). Roosevelt devoted much of his life to “strenuous” pursuits, building up a slender frame by vigorous exercise, and enduring extreme conditions as rancher and soldier. ~ |
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| The man who has the time, the discrimination, and the sagacity to collect and comprehend the principal facts and the man who must act upon them must draw near to one another and feel they are engaged in a common enterprise. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address to American Political Science Association, December 27, 1910 ~ |
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| What irritates us in the first place is that our wishes are not fulfilled. But remaining upset does nothing to help fulfill those wishes. So we neither fulfill our wishes nor regain our cheerfulness! This disconcerted state, from which anger can grow, is most dangerous. We should try never to let our happy frame of mind be disturbed. Whether we are suffering at present or have suffered in the past, there is no reason to be unhappy. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, February 22, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does “fame” become, especially of the literary sort. This species of “fame” a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Dec. 20, 1885, to James Billson. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged against provisions against danger, real or pretended from abroad. |
| ~ Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798, (James Madison, II, page 141) ~ |
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| Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 750. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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