Common sense isn't.
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| A strong sense of separateness in the past has brought about competition and warring. But now, we are more interdependent. So we need to communicate, hold dialogs, and compromise. It would be good to have a bullet that searches for and hits the real troublemaker, which is within us. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, April 13, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| As good wine needs no bush, so beer needs no excuse. One should drink it because it is pleasing to drink and not because it contains any specific number of calories or because it is either good or bad for you. |
| ~Anonymous, 1934 ~ |
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| "Handsome bell-rope, isn't it?" said Owl. Pooh nodded. "It reminds me of something," he said, "but I can't think what. Where did you get it?" "I just came across it in the Forest. It was hanging over a bush, and I thought at first somebody lived there, so I rang it, and nothing happened, and then I rang it again very loudly, and it came off in my hand, and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home and ---" "Owl," said Pooh solemnly, "you made a mistake. Somebody did want it." |
| ~ -- Pooh finds Eeyore's tail _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 47 ~ |
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| No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. ii. 13. ~ |
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| Delight,—top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 9, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Spoken by Father Mapple. ~ |
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| But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? |
| ~ Robert Browning, Balaustion's Adventure. ~ |
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| With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 618. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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