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Common Sensibility and Commitment
Lack of humor often goes with absence of common sense. Common sense can be allied to persistence so as to get things done. Some english people believe that it should be the test for any one before being encouraged to espouse a cause. There is a lesson in the case of harry wright, a market gardener of cottingham, near hull in northern england. In the 19 fifties, the tomato and cucumber marketing board, obsessed by rules, decided o and the sale of bent cucumbers in britain. The campaign against this bureaucracy became a national one. Mister wright did not plant bombs, make impassioned, logical speeches or organize street
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