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 an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day and try it. The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt. That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I’ll dream fast asleep. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. Billy Budd, Foretopman (l. 28). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought—those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again—and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Aug. 26, 1944, to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 509, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Roosevelt was among those who believed that Hitler had risen to power partly on the surge of conviction in Germany that they had not really lost the war in 1918, but rather that the military had been sold down the river by cowardly democratic politicians. He was determined to make sure that there was no possible misperception about whether or not the German military were defeated in the Second World War. ~ |
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| Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. |
| ~ Albert Einstein ~ |
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| Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform the calamity and misfortune into the path. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, May 30, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Whether the Constitution, as it has divided the powers of Government between the States in their separate and in their united capacities, tends to an oppressive aggrandizement of the General Government, or to an anarchical independence of the State Governments, is a problem which time alone can absolutely determine. |
| ~ Letter to John G. Jackson, December 27, 1821 (James Madison, 1865, III, pages 243-247) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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