Common sense isn't.
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| you might be a physics major... ...if you frequently whistle the theme song to "The X-Files." |
| ~ physics humor ~ |
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| If we are to be a really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. |
| ~ 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. 322 (1926). ~ |
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| How thou faintest for thy children, torn from thy soil, to till a stranger’s. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 168, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Yoomy, the poet, about Africa (”Hamora”). ~ |
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| Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present. ~ |
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| Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 44 Antigonus I. ~ |
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| Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. |
| ~ ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.—United Nations typescript of statements at presentation (microfilm). This quotation, lacking the final sentence, was used by Adlai E. Stevenson in 1963 on his Christmas card. ~ |
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| A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 97, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). ~ |
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