Common sense isn't.
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| Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Supplement.” “Battle-Pieces” (1866), p. 465, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947). ~ |
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| "There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good may be found in it." |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii. ~ |
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| "When did you begin?" The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into the court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. "Fourteenth of March, I _think_ it was," he said. "Fifteenth," said the March Hare. "Sixteenth," said the Dormouse. "Write that down," the Kind said to the jury; and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence. |
| ~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Chapter xi ~ |
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| Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Of Adversity. ~ |
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| "The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. x. 21. ~ |
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| There is no question but that you and I think alike in the great objectives of the peace when it comes. The real problem lies in the methods to be used to attain peace without hate.... [I]t is my thought that time is an essential in disseminating the ideals of peace among the very diverse nationalities and national egos of a vast number of separate peoples who, for one reason or another over a thousand years, have divided themselves into a hundred different forms of hate.... Therefore, I have been visualizing a superimposed—or if you like it, a superassumed—obligation by Russia, China, Britain and ourselves that we will act as sheriffs for the maintenance of order during the transition period. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Sept. 21, 1943, to George W. Norris. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, pp. 473-474, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). This was a capsule description of what FDR called elsewhere his “Four Policemen” plan to ensure a lasting peace and give time for people to become accustomed to a new way of conducting their affairs in a democratic framework. He was determined that democracy would prevail over the authoritarian kinds of regimes which had, in his opinion, led to two world wars. FDR was convinced that one reason for the rise of Hitler in Germany had been the harsh peace imposed after the First World War and the hatreds which had been aroused during that conflict and over generations in the old world. ~ |
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| Good motivation causes good action. The beauty of action is in the method. Buddhahood is the beauty of result. Generally beauty means something positive, but if you are subjectively too attached to it and handle it wrongly, it can lead to destruction. But then I wonder about the definition of beauty. Can you consider the art of killing as beauty, especially painless killing? Or the art of warfare - little expense but a huge amount of destruction? Maybe it is considered as beauty. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, May 16, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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