Common sense isn't.
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| The United Mine Workers and the CIO have paid cash on the barrel for every piece of legislation that we have gotten. We have the Wagner Act. The Wagner Act cost us many dollars in contributions which the United Mine Workers have made to the Roosevelt administration with the explicit understanding of a quid pro quo for labor. These contributions far exceed the notions held by the general public or the press. |
| ~ JOHN L. LEWIS, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).—Saul David Alinsky, John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography, p. 177 (1949). ~ |
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| The silence that is in the starry sky. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Ibid. ~ |
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| All the rest was indefinite, as the soundest advice ever is. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 93, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). With reference to advice. ~ |
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| It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, governor of New York, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois, April 10, 1899.—The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 1, p. 320 (1926). ~ |
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| Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper. ~ |
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| Dark with excessive bright. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 380. ~ |
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| Think you, my lord, there is no sensation in being a tree? feeling the sap in one’s boughs, the breeze in one’s foliage? |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 143, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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