Common sense isn't.
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| My native land, good night! |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 13. ~ |
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| The idea that our natural resources were inexhaustible still obtained, and there was as yet no real knowledge of their extent and condition. The relation of the conservation of natural resources to the problems of National welfare and National efficiency had not yet dawned on the public mind. The reclamation of arid public lands in the West was still a matter for private enterprise alone; and our magnificent river system, with its superb possibilities for public usefulness, was dealt with by the National Government not as a unit, but as a disconnected series of pork-barrel problems, whose only real interest was in their effect on the reëlection or defeat of a Congressman here and there—a theory which, I regret to say, still obtains. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography (vol. 20 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 11, p. 386 (1926). ~ |
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| No war or battle's sound Was heard the world around. |
| ~ John Milton, Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 53. ~ |
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| Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 344. ~ |
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| We shall fight for the virtue that has a history. What virtue? The horses of Patroclus weep for their master killed in battle. All is lost. But Achilles resumes the fight, and victory is the outcome, because friendship has just been assassinated: friendship is a virtue. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Helen's Exile, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| The "Federalist" may fairly enough be regarded as the most authentic exposition of the text of the federal Constitution as understood by the Body [Constitutional Convention] which prepared & and the Authorities [state ratifying conventions] which accepted it. |
| ~ (James Madison) Letter to Thomas Jefferson, February 8, 1825 (Peterson, 1974, 2. page 383) ~ |
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| Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Beppo. Stanza 32. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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