Common sense isn't.
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| Peace: The program of the world's peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---"Fourteen Points" Address to Joint Session of Congress, January 8, 1918. ~ |
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| A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck. |
| ~ Sophocles, Phædra. Frag. 862. ~ |
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| She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508. ~ |
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| But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, July 2, 1932, to Democratic national convention, accepting presidential nomination. ~ |
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| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, governor of New York, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois, April 10, 1899.—The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, p. 320 (1926). ~ |
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| Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5. ~ |
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| Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
| ~ Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Harper 61 ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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