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...overturn the Government. Interpreting their Constitution broadly, leaving much to precedent, and ignoring certain parts of it (e.g., the law which gave the President, with the Senate approval, the right to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies), Frenchmen made it work for 65 years, based on it their proverb: Only the provisional is lasting...
...Irish proverb...
...biographers for over 400 years, is a preincarnation of Don Quixote, an epic figure of epic contradictions, sailing "across a sea of errors to the shore of truth." Even de Madariaga does not think his own view is the one & only. So he says, (quoting an old Spanish proverb): "Truth marries...
...rest had to stay in India for police patrolling. The Indians had great losses in France as they were not at all used to the winter climate and because they were sent into the front lines. Nearly 50% of them were annihilated. This was in accordance with the British proverb, 'Empire troops into the front lines, we will stay behind...
Born in Burlington, Vt., where his father kept a general store displaying a sign: "Ham and Segars, Smoked and Un-smoked," John Dewey raised Yankee common sense to the status of a full-fledged philosophical system. Essence of his philosophy is indicated in the proverb: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Truth, to John Dewey, is not fixed or absolute, changes as conditions change. And he believes that the highest virtue is intelligence, that intelligence means resolving a problem with the answer that 1) is most workable, 2) makes the most people happy. Moral basis...