Common sense isn't.
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| It is necessary to have a combination of hearing, thinking, and meditation. When you start practicing, you should not expect too much. We live in a time of computers and automation, so you may feel that inner development is also an automatic thing for which you press a button and everything changes. It is not so. Inner development is not easy and will take time. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, June 2, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Menenius Agrippa concluded at length with the celebrated fable: "It once happened that all the other members of a man mutinied against the stomach, which they accused as the only idle, uncontributing part in the whole body, while the rest were put to hardships and the expense of much labour to supply and minister to its appetites." |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus. ~ |
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| We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 36, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Now half appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 463. ~ |
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| [T]he propensity of all single and numerous assemblies [is] to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions. |
| ~ (James Madison) Federalist, no. 62 ~ |
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| Enough is equal to a feast. |
| ~ Henry Fielding, The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1. ~ |
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| The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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