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

Barbara Tuchman

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
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Heard Presumption Reason
When people don’t have an objective, there’s much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
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Effort Interesting People
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources.
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Challenges Money Waiting
To explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.
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Conduct Human Irrational Phenomena Strange
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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Anxiety Christian Giving
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
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Forgiven Position Responsible
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
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Revolution Successful Tyrants
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
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Barbarians Loss Thinking
Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.
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Dominion Kind Motorcycle Power Success
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Events Midst Perspective
Woman was the Church’s rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil’s decoy.
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Church Devil Women
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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Fasting Purpose Victory
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Commerce Massacres Zeal
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Action Appetite Power
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
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Faculty Learning Teaching
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
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Age Bad Time Needs

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

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