Common sense isn't.
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| Chapter 7 : seek no wealth 01 Do not set your heart on wealth! 02 There is no ignoring Shay and Renenet! 03 Do not let your heart go straying, (for) 04 every man comes to his hour. 05 Do not labour to seek increase, 06 what You have, let it suffice You. 07 If riches come to You by theft, 08 they will not stay the night with You. 09 Comes morning, (and) they are not in your house ; 10 their place is seen but they are not there : 11 earth opened its mouth, leveled them, swallowed them, 12 and made them sink into Dat, (or) 13 they made a hole as big as their size, 14 and sank into the netherworld, (or) 15 they made themselves wings like geese, 16 and flew away to the sky. 17 Do not rejoice in wealth from theft, 18 nor complain of being poor. 19 If the leading archer presses forward, 20 his company abandons him! 21 The boat of the greedy is left (in) the mud, 22 while the bark of the tranquil sails with the wind. 23 You shall pray to the Aten when he rises, 24 saying : 'Grant me well-being and health!' 25 He will give You your needs for this life, 26 and You will be safe from fear. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| That old man eloquent. |
| ~ John Milton, To the Lady Margaret Ley. ~ |
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| There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Supplement.” “Battle-Pieces” (1866), p. 461, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947). Referring to political debate. ~ |
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| Oppression has never, anywhere, succeeded in suppressing the eternal desire of peeople to live as free men - free to think their own thoughts, free to act as they consider best for the common welfare and live as human beings - not as robots or slaves. Even if the Chinese leave nothing but ashes in our sacred land, Tibet will rise from these ashes as a free country even if it takes a long time to do so. No imperialist power has succeeded in keeping other people in colonial subjection for long. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, November 2, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Salut au Monde. 11. ~ |
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| Power: When I resist, therefore, when I as a Democrat resist the concentration of power, I am resisting the processes of death, because the concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human initiative, and, therefore of human energy. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address, New York City, September 4, 1912. ~ |
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| The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is, that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. |
| ~ "Advice to My Country" (James Madison, 1865, IV, following page 436) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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