Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Universal access is a new tool for creating understanding and wisdom," said Jock Gill, president of Penfield Gill, Inc. and former director of special projects at the White House Office of Media Affairs...
Leary "managed to sell a lot of students on the idea that you can get wisdom and insight from a pill, that drugs were a short cut," said Henderson Professor of Psychology Brendan A. Maher, who was then acting as the co-chair of the Department of Personality...
Cicero's statement reflects what is known as the natural-law argument against same-sex unions. This is the idea that marriage evolved in society over thousands of years as a childbearing union between a man and a woman, and that there is a profound wisdom in the tradition that should not be lightly discarded. Virtuecrat William J. Bennett contends that same-sex marriages "would do significant long-term social damage" to "society's most important institution." And that stretching the definition of marriage would jeopardize an already shaky institution...
...Russians have a saying: "One beaten man is worth two unbeaten ones." Experience, Gorbachev says, "is a great teacher; suffering is the mother of wisdom." So think of Mikhail Gorbachev as a beaten man fighting back. His chances are slim, and he knows it, but he has something to say and is determined to say it. "I set the course that has given people the right to make this choice," he says. "Who more than I has a right to run?" Asked if the prospect of history's kind verdict is comforting, the man who says, "I have seen...
Everclear's major-label debut album, Sparkle and Fade (Capitol), explores life on the emotional and economic edge with passion and wisdom. On songs that range from the tragic realism of Heroin Girl to the lyricism of Queen of the Air, Alexakis and his bandmates, bassist Craig Montoya and drummer Greg Eklund, manage to combine introspection with raw power. "This record is about getting out of bad situations," says Alexakis, a former cocaine user who gave up drugs 12 years ago, and says he's been clean ever since (he's now married and has a three-year-old daughter...