Common sense isn't.
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| Small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 32, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Spoken by the narrator, Ishmael. ~ |
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| With respect to the words, "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of power connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution . . . [that] was not contemplated by the creators. |
| ~ Letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831 (James Madison, 1865, IV, pages 171-172) ~ |
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| For a mediator who has a certain degree of inner stability and realization, every experience comes as a teaching; every event, every experience one is exposed to comes as a kind of learning experience. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, July 15, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| No free country has ever been without parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. |
| ~ Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after his retirement from public life (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 24) ~ |
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| Dare to look up to God and say, "Make use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am of the same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse nothing which seems good to Thee. Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in whatever dress Thou wilt." |
| ~ Epictetus, That we do not study to make Use of the established Principles concerning Good and Evil. Chap. ~ |
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| 'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 59. ~ |
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| Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
| ~ Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Harper 61 ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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