Word: foolishness
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...ultimately it is foolish to demand answers and concrete truths and unimpeachable descriptions when so few seem to exist. If we are confused and hesitant, it is but a reflection of McCarthy. When he spoke after the movie he seemed discouraged: "I said so much in 1968 and now it has to be said again. There is no change in policy." The Democratic Party, the vehicle for change to which he was once so committed, remains the same-and it must be abandoned. "I would not ask you to work within the party in 1972," McCarthy finally said...
Some of my best friends are my walking shoes tucked away in the corner of my foolish pocket of felt objects . . , -Jim Dine...
...haven't done some foolish things in my life," said Diz tearfully at a Phoenix press conference, "but I'll assure you of one thing: I have nothing to do with big-time gambling-never did and never will. I want to tell you exactly how I became involved in this thing. It was through a friend who asked me to make wagers for him, and I did. I was told there was no harm in it. Later on I was told it was the wrong thing to do, and I stopped...
...would be foolish to suggest that food can be interpreted and enjoyed equally by everyone; it does require a cultivation of the palate and, less frequently, a durability of the system. But certainly there are fewer obstacles to the attainment of delicate taste buds than there are in the way of good literary, musical, or artistic critical faculties...
Political Scientist Alan F. Westin of Columbia University defines privacy as the right "to determine what information about ourselves we will share with others." In certain primitive tribes, people will not give their names to strangers for fear that they will thereby surrender part of themselves. Foolish as the custom may seem to modern man, it has a point: an individual's information about himself represents a large part of what Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried calls his "moral capital." Some of this information, by right and necessity, he wants to keep to himself. Some of it he will...