Common sense isn't.
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| It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed—and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn’s election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Jan. 4, 1940, to Crown Prince Olav of Norway. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 302, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Although he was sometimes frustrated with the short- sightedness of the Congress and the public concerning where the national interest might lie in facing the dictators, the President still believed that the democracies held the upper hand in the end because the system under which they operated was superior, and he had faith that eventually the good sense of the electorate would lead them to the proper responses. ~ |
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| Socrates said, "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." |
| ~ Plutarch, How a Young Man ought to hear Poems. 4. ~ |
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| Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. ~ |
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| My sentence is for open war. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 51. ~ |
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| Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect. |
| ~W.R. Koehler ~ |
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| Let us make hay while the sun shines. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. ~ |
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| One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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