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«One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.»
«Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.»
«Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
Conservatism,
Liberalism
| Keywords:
conservatism, distrust, liberalism, prudence, tempered
«I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.»
«In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; / Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; / Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: / That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: / In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: / That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abounded, dispensation, inheritance, obtained, predestinate, prudence, purposed, redemption
«PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
and so forth, arbiter, attendance, courageous, defect, disputant, disputants, disputes, formerly, International, international affairs, in attendance, physical contact, projectile, propulsion, prudence, rudimentary, settled, spear, The Times
«It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
conscience, country, freedom, Freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, goodness, practice, precious, prudence, speech, unspeakably
«I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Prudence
| Keywords:
abstain, abstaining, abstains, cautious, contemptuous, excites, expressions, mark, prudence, revenge, the threat of, Threats, weaken, weakening
«Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Foresight
| Keywords:
abdication, element, foresight, prudence
«It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?»
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