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Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Barbara Tuchman

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
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Communism Communist Myth
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
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Purpose Technology Use
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Degrees Taken Writing
No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
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Europe War World
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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Power Strong Thinking
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
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Husband Men Stories
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
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Government Periods Pursuit
Wisdom – meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
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Appreciation Common Sense Wisdom
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Book Reading Stupid
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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Dangerous Seductive Used
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Art Christianity Ideas
They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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Banker Companion Erect Lighthouse Magician Sea Teacher
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Eyebrows Female Habit
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
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Development Facts Tragedy
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Errors Forever Yesterday

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