Common sense isn't.
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| "Correct! You may press the button." "Even if it matters, does it matter that it matters?" "Bring the robot, Arthur ... we might be able to bury him somewhere ..." "Put your analyst on danger money, baby." "Theres no ground, Ford... Some cat's taken the ground away..." "What did you expect me to say? Quite a good likeness, except the nose is a bit bent? And those noxious, streaky substances down my face are less than lifelike." "If you enjoyed the experience of this drink, why not share it with your friends?" "O.K, I'll be the Vogons! When you hear the beep, just - OEARREOOWRGH! Er, could you try to be a bit more relaxed about this, guys?" "You always overcompensate for your injuries. I'm thinking of having my whole body surgically removed." " The only doctors still in business were the psychiatrists, purely because nobody had discovered a cure for the universe as a whole, or at least the only one that did exist had been abolished by the medical doctors ... it was realised that nothing turned a moderately talented musician into a towering genius faster than encroaching deafness; and, similarly, nothing turned a perfectly normal, sound individual into a brilliant political or military leader faster than irreversible brain damage." |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!" |
| ~ Plutarch, Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus. 11. ~ |
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| I am always quite cheerful! It is, I think, the result of my own practice and training. In my lifetime, I have lost my country and have been reduced to being totally dependent on the goodwill of others. I have also lost my mother, and most of my tutors and gurus have passed away, although I now have a few new gurus. Of course these are tragic incidents, and I feel sad when I think about them. However, I don't feel overwhelmed by sadness. Old, familiar faces disappear, and new faces appear, but I still maintain my happiness and peace of mind. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, December 2, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. |
| ~ Richard Sheridan, The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1. ~ |
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| In the great right of an excessive wrong. |
| ~ Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book. The other Half-Rome. Line 1055. ~ |
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| There is a homely old adage which runs: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” If the American Nation will speak softly, and yet build, and keep at a pitch of the highest training, a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far. |
| ~ President THEODORE ROOSEVELT, speech, Chicago, Illinois, April 2, 1903.—Presidential Addresses and State Papers, part 1 (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, executive ed.), p. 266 (n.d.). In America and the World War, chapter 2, p. 24, he referred to “the homely proverb: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’”—The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., vol. 18 (1926). In the last chapter of Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, p. 524 (vol. 20 of Works, national ed.), he says: “The only safe rule is to promise little, and faithfully to keep every promise; ‘to speak softly and carry a big stick.’” ~ |
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| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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