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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be 
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 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be 
for a glorious throne to his father's house. 
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
 Precaution is better than cure.
 [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]  
 Precaution is better than cure.
 [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.] 
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
 I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
 [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]  
 I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
 [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] 
According to her cloth she cut her coat.
According to her cloth she cut her coat.
 One can't get diseases
of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig
by eating tomatoes or
almonds or figs.  
 One can't get diseases
of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig
by eating tomatoes or
almonds or figs. 
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.