Common sense isn't.
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| The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees. |
| ~ Gye Fram ~ |
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| The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. |
| ~ Euripides, Alcmene. Frag. 100. ~ |
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| though someone may be silver-tongued, one cannot call such a person wise. The one who is patient, free from anger, and fearless - this one is called wise. |
| ~Endowed with the Dharma ~ |
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| The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). |
| ~ John Milton, Lycidas. Line 109. ~ |
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| A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is no word-for-word rendering. Moreover, nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Appendix, Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. |
| ~ Speech in the Virginia State Convention of 1829-'30, on the Question of the Ratio of Representation in the two Branches of the Legislature, December 2, 1829 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 51) ~ |
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| Not sure if it's letter-perfect, that's a phonetic interpre What am I talking about - I have the book right here! OK, the "chust" is "just", and there's no comma, but apart from that, it's exact! |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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