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...professor of politics at Princeton University writing in the New York Review of Books, was wrestling with the same problem. He found solace, or at least something of a possible silver lining, in an unlikely source. In the third book of Machiavelli's Discourses, the 15th century Florentine sage declares of bodies such as republics that "those changes are beneficial that bring them back to their original principles. And those are the best-constituted bodies, and have the longest existence, which possess the intrinsic means of frequently renewing themselves." This renewal can be accomplished by a "blow from without...
...received by the 15-member council since it set up shop last August as an independent watchdog of press fairness. The complaint was also one of the 34 cases to get past a staff screening and reach the seven members of the council's grievance committee. After sage deliberation, the committee deferred judgment "pending further study...
...China, meanders through an Indian reservation in central Wisconsin, and empties finally into Croton Lake not a mile from where I live in southern New York State." The novel's epigraph, the reader notes with a sense of having been sandbagged, is a whimsy of the trout-fishing sage, Sparse Grey Hackle, who says that the water of the Hassayampa "renders those who drink it incapable of telling the truth...
...interesting to observe that the Symbionese Liberation Army [Feb. 18] did not invent its symbol, the seven-headed cobra. This is an old symbol of Hindu mythology, representing first a Naga, a sacred serpent born of Kadru and the sage Kasyapa. then the serpent-king Sesha, who is usually associated with the god Vishnu in the creation of the world. The picture of this symbol is probably taken from an esoteric book by James Churchward, The Sacred Symbols...
Many of his sayings are hauntingly familiar, aphoristic observations usually attributed in the West to Benjamin Franklin or some ancient Jewish sage. Truisms like "Practice what you preach," or "He who learns without thinking is lost, but he who thinks without learning is in danger" seem reasonable building blocks for any society. And no one can argue with "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...