Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote: "We don't believe in miracles saving us ... even the miracle of everybody being supported by the Government. . . . We have been jolted back to problems demanding essentially the same kind of courage that faced the old Pilgrims three centuries ago. ... I know of no magic shortcut to wisdom. But I do know of a quick road to folly-the road of suppression, of fear of new ideas, of unwillingness to experiment ... of accepting our economic evils docilely. . . . We may have sinned again and again against the light, but we are still the children...
Russia's war is not yet won. As Germany exhausted herself trying to carry the war to Russia on a 1,500-mile battle line, Russia, in spite of her greater manpower, may also lose it by the same means unless the battle wisdom of the Russian Army is great enough to prevent...
...Leaders. The battle wisdom on which this now depends must come from the heads of Russia's leaders. Part of it must come from the Soviet Supreme Command (Marshals Stalin, Shaposhnikov, Zhukov, Voroshilov, Vasilevsky, Voronov, Novikov). Part of it must come from the leaders who have actually wrought Russia's victories in the field...
Once upon a hight (not quite midnight) as I pondered, if not weak at least weary there came a crashing on my door. Shoving aside change number 34 or was it 14, I staggered to the portal and was asked any, ordered to please produce some pears of wisdom for the SERVICE NEWS. I was weary enough to give in weakly...
...Justice moved my great Maker; Divine Power made me, and supreme Wisdom and primal Love. . . . All hope abandon, ye who enter here...