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So Lu Hardin gets nigh unto a million dollars plus a few years of health benefits to go away as president of the University of Central Arkansas. Experience: oracle of wisdom, least fallible guide ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The word "experience" appears 91 times in the Federalist Papers, those distillations of conservative sense and sensibility. Madison, Hamilton and Jay said that truths are "taught" and "corroborated" by experience. These writers were eager to "consult" and be "led" by experience. They spoke of "indubitable" and "unequivocal" lessons from experience, the "testimony" of experience and "the accumulated experience of ages." "Accumulating" experience is "the parent of wisdom" and a "guide" that "justifies," "confirms" and can "admonish." America's Founders were empiricists and students of history who trusted "that best oracle of wisdom, experience," which is humanity's "least fallible guide." Letters to the Editor Americans, grab your mute buttons and press firmly All this time I thought the commercials were loud because I didn't own a television set equipped with the latest technology. I also reasoned that maybe the change to digital television caused there to be a difference in the decibel level of sitcoms, movies and the local news as opposed to commercials. |
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