“…we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.”

— Michael Faraday, book Experimental researches in chemistry and physics

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English scientist 1791–1867

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“This dictate of common sense.”

Jonathan Edwards book The Freedom of the Will

The Freedom of the Will (1754).

“The very answers in which we seek are staring back at us in every reflection.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

“I own it is a common saying, that every reverse of fortune teaches us how to behave on another occasion; but that is not true, as the circumstances which attend each event are different, and such as could not be foreseen.”

Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

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Gli è ben vero che si dice Tu imparerai per un'altra volta: questo non vale perchè la vien sempre con modi diversi e non mai immaginati.
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Autobiography, vol. 2, ch. 9

“We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.”

John Dickinson (1732–1808) American politician

From Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Causes_and_Necessity_of_Taking_Up_Arms, adopted by the Second Continental Congress (1775)