Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wise Catherine herself contrived...
...loss of influence. The uproar that arose in both the House of Commons and the French Assembly over President Truman's misunderstood reference to the atom bomb was most of all a nervous expression of lack of faith in the capacity of American leadership to make wise decisions...
What they are looking for is sober courage, sober calculation. The U.S. performance shows fluctuating courage, fluctuating calculations. To politically wise Italians, the indecisive U.S. attitude toward Communist China is worse than either outright rejection or acceptance, for it looks as if the U.S. is not sure of its political judgment...
...show you that he feels lonely and sad . . . Remember that when the lights are turned out at night he has no contact with you." Hearing nothing, and seeing nothing as well, he will be afraid. "During this time that he is learning to live without sound it is wise to use a night light...
...conduct of human beings towards one another," Mill observes in his essay "On Liberty," "it is necessary that general rules should for the most part be observed, in order that people may know what they have to expect." Mill's words are wise words and deserve attention. But just as the philosopher realized that by applying the rule of reason there had to be limitations on liberty, so reason dictates that there must be limitations on limitations lest they become tyrannical...