Word: truisms
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Although it is excellent to have a giant's strength, it is tyrannous to use it like a giant, and a giant acting for himself can't use it any other way. By deepening our understanding of this truism, Sampson's book may hasten--in however slight a degree--the day when the people of the world assume the power their capital has built...
...movie admits no more than a turn of the century secret: Nora's education in a system of sexual power that admitted no equality has cast her identity in a mold of submission. But in conceding this so generously, the movie attaches a seventies' relevance to a decades' old truism...
...Harvard still faces the problem of not having any commonly accepted definition of "corporate social responsibility" to work with. The Austin Report argued against "joining forces with other large, tax-exempt organizations in policing the conduct of business corporations." Yet, it noted that "it is a truism in the financial world that [except for rare cases] abstention in a proxy contest is a vote for management...
...world, in the meantime everyone is dying of indifference and analysis. Which is more unoriginal, the critique of its technique, is moot. The amazing thing is that Lessing takes herself seriously. The language of "Report" may be pseudo-scientific, but mock-serious it is not. Lessing slaps on truism after truism with the plaster knife of all her wellworn and well meaning liberal convictions. Once again the saving grace of humor is absent where it is most needed...
...Truism. In a marked softening of previous attitudes, the convention adopted a resolution, paralleling the recommendations of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, urging that felony penalties for the possession of "insignificant" quantities of pot be abandoned. In professional tones, the A.M.A. urged further scientific studies of cannabis...