Common sense isn't.
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| It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address to Joint Session of Congress, asking for a declaration of war, April 2, 1917. ~ |
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| Chapter 17 : do not corrupt the measure 01 Beware of disguising the wedjat-measure, 02 so as to falsify its fractions. 03 Do not force it to overflow, 04 nor let its belly be empty. 05 Measure according to its true size, 06 your hand clearing exactly. 07 Do not make a bushel of twice its size, 08 for then You are headed for the flood. 09 The bushel is the Eye of Re, 10 it abhors him who trims. 11 A measurer who indulges in cheating, 12 his Eye seals (the verdict) against him. 13 Do not accept a farmer's dues, 14 and then assess him so as to injure him. 15 Do not conspire with the measurer, 16 so as to defraud the share of the residence. 17 Greater is the might of the threshing floor, 18 than an oath by the great throne. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? |
| ~Steven Wright ~ |
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| We know our task to be no mere task of politics but a task which shall search us through and through... This is not a day of triumph: It is a day of dedication. Here, muster, not the forces of party, but the forces of humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us, men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon us to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1913 ~ |
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| There are three types of wisdom, or three stages in one's understanding. First is the stage of hearing or learning, the initial stage when you read or hear about something. The second stage is when, after learning, you think about the issue or topic constantly, and through constant familiarity and thinking, your understanding becomes clearer. Then at that time you begin to have certain feelings or experiences. This third stage is called "meditatively acquired wisdom." This is when you not only intellectually understand the subject matter but also, through meditative experience, are able to feel it. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, September 16, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 45 Antigonus I. ~ |
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| God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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