Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GINGRICH was learning some handy lessons. One was the value of setting the bar high, in the belief that it's sometimes easier to do the impossible than the merely improbable. This was especially true about his insistence on balancing the budget in seven years, when conventional wisdom held that no politician had the stomach to balance...
...solve. The notion of taking the poor off welfare as a sort of cold bath is nonsense. I'm not arguing for the current situation. No one would. But nobody knows what is going to work. Why take a plunge in the dark? The oldest piece of conservative wisdom is to do things slowly...
...agenda that is not simply the opposite number of their opponents'. But his chief accomplishment thus far is the destruction of the status quo. That may be the limit of his historic role. Every movement of ideas must have a human face, a person in whose integrity and wisdom people can believe sufficiently to overlook the risks and the inconsistencies contained in the new ideology...
...American, what do I care? Every time I read about one of the princesses getting her toes sucked, I marvel once again at the wisdom of our own Founding Fathers. Maybe they couldn't foresee that in 200 years or so the British royal line would dissolve in farce. Maybe they thought the madness would end with the notoriously bonkers George III. But they knew there was something inherently wrong with the idea that political power resides in a strand of DNA, or that the fate of a nation--or even just its self-respect--should depend on the sexual...
That's a load of bitter wisdom for a boy to carry. So the author lets Jozska's father, a con man and survivor, speak the summation. Blaming the entire German nation, this fellow says wryly, "would be too German ... so collective responsibility is probably a myth." Here we imagine a grimace from the cafe intellectual. "Collective irresponsibility, on the other hand, certainly exists...