Common sense isn't.
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| Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions,-as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. |
| ~ Epictetus, How the Semblances of Things are to be combated. Chap. xviii. ~ |
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| The differences in physiology (skin color, slanted eyes, etc.) and culture that appear to separate people, it seems to me, only unify them all the more. The theories of cultural difference that the history of the world has seen are absurd and pernicious. They lead to nothing but bloody impasses. Today especially, when images from all over the earth are coming our way, our deep unity seems evident to me. Every new institution ought to take this as its point of departure, as its foundation. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, April 23, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Chapter 19 : do not commit perjury 01 Do not go to court before an official 02 in order to falsify your words. 03 Do not vacillate in your answers, 04 when your witnesses accuse. 05 Do not labour (with) oaths by your Lord, 06 (with) speeches at the hearing. 07 TeIl the truth before the official, 08 lest he lay a hand on You. 09 If another day You come before him, 10 he will incline to all You say, 11 he will relate your speech to the Council of Thirty, (and) 12 it will be observed on another occasion. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself—who according to the Rabbins was also the first author—not being an original; the only original author being God. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. XVIII, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 15. ~ |
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| A great deal of beer was brewed and drunk in Hoboken, but the consumption in the various beer halls was sedate and ruminative rather than boisterous. Once a year - sturdy Protestants though they were - the brewers of Hoboken gave a great pre-Lenten ball (their Fasching, their Mardi Gras) in honor of King Gambrinus, the inventor of beer. |
| ~Thorton Wilder, The Eighth Day ~ |
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| If what the philosophers say be true,-that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,-so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage. |
| ~ Epictetus, Discourses. Chap. xviii. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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