Common sense isn't.
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| Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term “unconditional surrender.” ... The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech—in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Jan. 17, 1944, to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 492, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Roosevelt had announced the “Unconditional Surrender” doctrine at Casablanca and it was criticized by the Soviets. Stalin believed the Germans would use it to stiffen resistance and he was correct. FDR then felt the need to assert that it was not aimed at the German people but at their leaders and their philosophy of conquest. ~ |
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| That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane. |
| ~ Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter. ~ |
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| Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylæ. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 7. ~ |
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| "There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals. In which case `_Aha!_' is perhaps a _foolish_ thing to say." |
| ~ -- the fears of a Very Small Animal _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 84 ~ |
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| "... tell me your name and your business." "My _name_ is Alice, but---" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "_Must_ a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "_my_ name means the shape I am---and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost." |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter vi ~ |
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| He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Luria. Act ii. ~ |
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| The rising world of waters dark and deep. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 11. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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