Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral myopia which allows a few drops of blood, shed in legitimate police action, to overshadow the violent seizure of private property places the entire community at the mercy of any extremist group. Furthermore, it alienates the University's friends and contributors. Finally, it's just plain stupid...
...directly from the language of their West African forefathers and are not a corruption of European usage: "Suddenly this causes the black students to feel that their language isn't so inferior after all. This is psychologically important -the black doesn't have to feel he is stupid...
...slowly, not easily, minorities began to move together. "No other group has worked so hard and so long with men so stubborn, so inefficient, and so stupid," Miles Link of Afro said near the beginning of the meeting. When he finished, most of the thousands made it clear that they believed him and would stand with Afro for its demands...
...human is born with a hereditary capacity to be bright, stupid or anything in between. His starting position on the intelligence scale is predetermined-a biological sentence, like the one that orders tigers to give birth to tiger cubs and the human female to produce human babies. But nothing prevents a normal man from enriching his intellectual birthright, if it is allowed to mature in a hospitable environment. The obverse is equally true. Potential geniuses, deprived of suitable stimulation, will never fulfill their endowment...
...late Justice Learned Hand: "There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." Financier J. P. Morgan put it more bluntly: "If Congress insists on making stupid mistakes and passing foolish tax laws, millionaires should not be condemned if they take advantage of them...