Common sense isn't.
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| Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9. ~ |
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| Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 7, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). Spoken by a fictional Benjamin Franklin. ~ |
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| These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog Fala. Well, of course I don’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, learning that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him—at a cost to the tax payers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars—his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Jim Bishop, FDR’s Last Year, pp. 151-152, William Morrow & Co., Inc. (1972). FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 11, Teamster’s Union address—”Fala was furious” (September 23, 1944), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). This was reputed to be one of FDR’s best campaign speeches, wherein he responded to a campaign flyer by the Republicans that he had spent a fortune rescuing his dog on an inspection trip of military facilities. ~ |
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| Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 10. ~ |
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| While ... we cannot and must not hide our concern for grave world dangers, and while, at the same time, we cannot build walls around ourselves and hide our heads in the sand, we must go forward with all our strength to stress and to strive for international peace. In this effort America must and will protect herself. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, vol. 4, p. 442, Random House (1938-1950). Edward M. Bennett, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Security: American-Soviet Relations, 1933-1939, p. 61, Scholarly Resources, Inc. (1985). This was a continuation of the President’s attempt to ensure that the American people would not be lulled into a false sense of security by their ocean barriers, and to combat the isolationist sentiment which was paralyzing the U.S. response to world crises. ~ |
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| "I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places." |
| ~ Plutarch, Laconic Apophthegms. Of Agesilaus the Great. ~ |
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| I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Starting from Paumanok. 6. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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