Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smugness can put an iron curtain around us as effectively, as government can. The ignorance that I think is most dangerous to us is our own. The Nürnberg experience therefore leads me to doubt the wisdom of many people who think we have to ... break in through the Soviet iron curtain, that we must somehow penetrate it with information, news and our own ideology. I agree that the iron curtain is regrettable. But I think it is ultimately more disastrous to those it shuts in than to us whom it shuts...
...shame to chase an owl around on Harvard Yard not to speak of the sacrilege to kill it? The owl has been the incarnation of wisdom since ages and the saying: "to carry owls to Athens" is one of the classical phrases for anything in the line of teaching Americans democracy...
...becoming a Franciscan, Emmett McLoughlin had taken vows subordinating his own will to the wisdom and spiritual judgment of his Superior. When that Superior, the. Rev. Gregory Wooler O.F.M., decided that the time had come for Father McLoughlin to leave his post, the 41-year-old priest made a rebellious decision...
...just as secret now as it always has been. Over the years knowledge, theories, the results of experiments brought by travelers to the Indies, to far off China, Australia, Europe and Africa-and just across Boston's Charles River-all this he has added to his own native wisdom ... But he has never mixed ... in his formula...
...sorrows and desires and hopes and ideas of a race with vivid feelings and deep emotional reactions are forced in upon themselves, bound inward by an iron ring of frustration: the prejudice that hems them in with its four insurmountable walls. In this huge cauldron, inestimable natural gifts, wisdom, love, music, science, poetry are stamped down and left to boil with the dregs of an elementally corrupted nature, and thousands upon thousands of souls are destroyed by vice and misery and degradation, obliterated, wiped out, washed from the register of the living, dehumanized...