Common sense isn't.
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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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| We are now crusing at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. Thank you. Two to the power of twenty thousand to one against and falling. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| "Let thine occupations be few," saith the sage, "if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life." |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 24. ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 50. ~ |
8th try here:
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| On Slang: The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. VIII¶2, 1922 ~ |
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| Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. |
| ~ John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Line 66. ~ |
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| The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. |
| ~ Voltaire, Merope. Act i. Sc. 3. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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