Common sense isn't.
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| For words are wise men's counters,-they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. |
| ~ The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv. ~ |
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| Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,-when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number. |
| ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Dedication to Urn-Burial. ~ |
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| As a philanthropist in general, and a friend to the Polynesians in particular, I hope that these Edens of the South Seas, blessed with fertile soils and peopled with happy natives, many being yet uncontaminated by the contact of civilization, will long remain unspoiled in their simplicity, beauty, and purity. And as for annexation, I beg to offer up an earnest prayer—and I entreat all present and all Christians to join me in it—that the banns of that union should be forbidden until we have found for ourselves a civilization morally, mentally, and physically higher than one which has culminated in almshouses, prisons, and hospitals. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “The South Seas” (1858-59), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture. ~ |
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| Western brains work, they work a great deal, but always in the direction of efficiency. In that way the mind puts itself at the service of the result. Like all servants, it renounces its independence. I am talking about another form of spiritual life, more detached and deeper, free from the obsession of a goal to be reached. In a way, the universal invasion of technology, everywhere it goes, lessens the life of the mind. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, September 21, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, To a Young Lady. Dear Child of Nature. ~ |
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| Heaven gives its favourites-early death. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 102. ~ |
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| >consult guide about Great Unanswered Question That is one of the Great Unanswered Questions. For a list of the others, consult the Guide. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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