Word: often
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disagree on just about everything. What I find most disturbing in his remarks is his determination to replace fact with fiction when he said, "It's very disquieting to see instances of public officials providing favors, particularly financial ones." Does he know something I don't? Often times, people predicate of others activities similar in nature to activities in which the speaker or writer is a participant. Is this what underlies and rests at the root of Mr. Turk's statement that "...questions of appearance are important because you can't know if someone is returning favors because of side...
...authors of the book also seem to be a bit too trusting--if someone says they never made the statement, then obviously they did not make it. Philip Sheridan, for instance, is often credited with having said, "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." The quote stems from an account of the meeting between Sheridan and Commanche leader Toch-a-way. Sheridan denied having made the statement, but who would not--after the fact...
...League is very strong, anyone could win," Caples said. "Harvard has a lot of character and you can expect us to come out strong and score early and often...
...often been said that reading the Great Ones can degenerate into idolizing them; it is just as true that assigned reading of all sorts too often degenerates into merely idolizing the reading...
...final "Great Books attitude" we retain too often is the assumption that whatever the rest of the world is thinking and doing is irrelevant: as long as we've read our book, thought about it and found our own piece of truth, who cares what the rest of humanity is up to? Of course, it is perfectly possible to read any book from Plato to Joseph Campbell with the rest of humanity in mind; it's just that it's a lot easier to read it with only the book itself in mind...