The first post-fast meal of papaya made my toes curl with pleasure, but, as George Bernard Shaw observed, "Any fool can fast, but it takes a wise man to break a fast properly".
A wise approach is to break the task into manageable pieces ("divide and conquer").
It's wise to consider breaking up the company from time to time, he says, but if Dow had done it in 2006, "we would have lost all that joint venture cash".
They would be wise to stop them.
If we were wise, we would try to break out of the loop.
One officer even refers to the boy as a "mut," and a "wise ass," and threatens to break the boy's arm.
The other foster youth I met at Barry's housewarming were smart, creative, talented, charming, witty, wise and... very determined to break the cycle.
"The challenge here is to break through message-wise and convince the media, financial markets, and the public at large that these measures signify real efforts to restrain spending," Obama's economic team wrote.
So far, the world's best and biggest tokamak, the JET experiment in the UK, hasn't even managed to break even, energy-wise.
But Clark Clifford, who had recently replaced Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, found that this time, two months after the Tet Offensive, with public confidence beginning to break, most of the Wise Men, including Dean Acheson and McGeorge Bundy, both anti-Communist hawks, had changed their minds.
They are a powerful firewall that the Buddha recommends to practice of wise abandoning, kindness, compassion and generosity as tools to break through.
