Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie heard as much controversy over the political wisdom of making the speech as he did over the fiscal wisdom of what he said. Even his friends and advisers thought it was an unpalatable truth that no voter would swallow. But Willkie, off to the West for a look at his outer defenses from Wisconsin to Washington, could take heart. The pros were horrified because this strong medicine might be distasteful to the people. But perhaps the people were pleased because this strong medicine was distasteful to the pros...
First, and foremost, we bestow upon the staff (bless'em) our fond felicitations and trust that they will carry on in the true Harvard tradition. . .May they act with caution, dignity, and continue to administer according to the dictates of their infinite wisdom. . . . To Brother Busch, a baseball bat, a pencil eraser, a bad memory, who dozen boxes of aspirin, and the latest edition of Watch-Bill Drafting Made Easy. . . . Mr. Flanigan: Bottle of Kreml, giant size. . . . Mr. Wires: a new call sign. . . . to Hopf and Peachie (the Mighty Mite): free and unrestricted access to sick bay, provided they haven...
Peter Cooper hired a professional mechanic to teach his grandsons how to use tools and make things, gave away money right & left (but advised them not to), and told them, out of the reminiscent wisdom of his 92 years, about General Washington's funeral parade along Broadway, with the General's military boots slung over the saddle of his war horse...
...Secret Everywhere. Readers who can see the Chinese truth beyond the English screen of translation may find in the 265 pages of The Wisdom of Confucius concentrated material for a lifetime of study. Composed at the time of Pythagoras (582-507 B.C.), Confucius' doctrine of the moral law in The Order of Things (a Confucian expression) has the celestial grandeur and poetry of Lucretius...
...moral law; but in its utmost reaches there is something which even the wisest and holiest of men can not understand. . . . The moral man finds the moral law beginning in the relation between man and woman, but ending in the vast reaches of the universe." The practical wisdom of Confucius' prescription for a good ruler, "Be a good son and brother," was a part of his simple and infinitely varied ordering of society into five human relationships: sovereign and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, friend and friend...