Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary appeared to enjoy himself as he scolded those who have dared to question the perfect wisdom responsible for the present mess in North Africa. Again he advised the American people that when they have grown up and have learned the facts of life they will understand that Aunty knew best all along...
...Digest! You just can't imagine how much real pleasure it has given me. When I come home, tired and hungry and irritable from standing over a hot record all day, I just sit right down and start to chew on some of those precious little pearls of wisdom that drop from its pages. And do they stick in my throat? Do they choke me? Why, I should like to state right here and now that they most certainly...
...guts, Parse Parisius finally exploded: "We in Agriculture have a job to do that calls for courage and wisdom and action. You have placed upon me great responsibility for that job. But neither I nor anyone else can do that job unless his authority to operate is clear...
...finally to Sicily itself. "... I began asking myself questions like these: Was it in the chemistry of human life for my relatives to become Anglo-Saxonized-the apparent goal of the melting pot theorists? . . . Was it necessary that they try to change themselves? Didn't America need their wisdom and their warmth, just as they and their children needed America's youth and vigor...
...appetite for idealism was flirtation and puppy love. They were never sure in what they could believe. And yet the class that now departs has developed a faith of its own. It is, perhaps, no longer a religious faith in abstract universals, but it remains a faith in the wisdom of men and in their ability to achieve their own salvation. We no longer fight for preconceived ideals, but we go forth with a conviction that out of this chaos we and our fellow can construct a better world...