Murray's How to Make a Bird shows with rare insight and wisdom the path to growing and becoming that we must all take. |
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The Magician himself is a Druid-like wisdom figure, complete with beard, staff, long robe, and chaplet of oak leaves. |
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It's an echo chamber for the common wisdom of the subset of people who use the site more than anything else. |
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Although some clinicians opt to follow asymptomatic patients conservatively with serial sonography, the wisdom of this approach is questioned. |
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He gets in touch with his Indian heritage and a wisdom drenched phrase bubbles through his drunken babble. |
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After a day of eating, drinking and making merry, round off with some words of wisdom from our favourite family. |
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Don't think that the koan and its solution are themselves wisdom and truth. |
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He is given the benefit of some wisdom and a bedrock code of behavior, which prevent him from being a mindless cutout. |
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She issues world-weary, no-nonsense wisdom as she tries, repeatedly, to convince heavyset Deb that bigger is better. |
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The Native Americans were big into age, deeply wrinkled old chiefs with long, plaited grey hair were figures of wisdom and respect. |
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Kudos to the Astros for bucking the conventional wisdom in favor of guys who can actually pitch. |
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They are a perfect 17-0, which is more than can be said for the opinion polls or the collected wisdom of the capital's regiment of pundits. |
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The serpents' wisdom quoted here means shrewd intelligence with perfect knowledge of the position under which one is placed. |
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The ultimate aim is to increase the level of collective wisdom through sharing our separate experience and expertise. |
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Your professional wisdom and craft are appreciated and fresh opportunities in your field of activity are made available to you. |
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Going for a job interview is more traumatic than having a wisdom tooth out. |
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To gain wisdom from life experiences, youngsters ought to receive training on zeroing in on their inherent talents. |
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They lavished many gifts on the King, and they praised his advisers for their wisdom in bringing the palace to completion. |
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It may have been that the request for the gun discouraged them, or it may have been for other reasons, but in their wisdom they never appeared. |
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Unfortunately, historical reality is no respecter of conventional wisdom and often requires it to change course if calamity is to be avoided. |
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These leaders used the wisdom they found during this meeting to begin the tradition of Indian lore at camps. |
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The deep resonance of his voice brings out both the wisdom and intimacy of his poems. |
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Conflict will only arise if we practice prejudice against either wisdom or faith. |
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Even the sceptics who had questioned the wisdom of spending 800 million euros to build and upgrade stadia, joined the party mood. |
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Conventional wisdom had it that the higher turnout would favour the Democrats. |
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He is the thinker of the gang, manifestly sucking his wisdom out of his thumb. |
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There is no wisdom in putting a road for said heavy traffic through the deep backwater of the Slater Creek basin into Pitt Street. |
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Many critics doubted the wisdom in signing the Celtic player at all, but they were totally baffled at the decision to hose him with money. |
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My piece is based on the Hakka's hard-working and stoic spirit, and their wisdom in solving problems posed by nature. |
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He has become a wellspring for wisdom and waggishness for a broad range of diverse historical figures and colorful characters. |
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Indeed, they are so against the conventional wisdom that they might be termed heresy. |
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Cutting down on the thunderous drives, he reined himself in, played the waiting game to perfection and showed great wisdom in shot selection. |
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Then similar wisdom was applied to the strong nuclear force to yield quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, and this theory was also renormalizable. |
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Conventional wisdom also said that Liverpool would never be jammy enough to beat Juventus, Chelsea and Milan. |
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In many people, the wisdom teeth are unable to erupt normally so they either remain below the jawline or don't grow in properly. |
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We had become more Jewishly involved, and had found the timeless wisdom of Torah to be an invaluable guide in many difficult situations. |
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There have been films that denied the torment of this terrible illness by romanticizing it as a form of wisdom or special insight. |
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Besides the potential of wisdom attributed to popular maxims there is another sign pointing in the same direction. |
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An ancient rule of wisdom advises that when the blind lead the blind they all stumble into the ditch. |
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She also wants residents to learn the ins and outs of housing and benefit schemes, and to impart their wisdom to fellow prisoners. |
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An early task for the new Food Standards Authority involves exercising wisdom over a classical problem in public health nutrition. |
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Spiritual gurus endorse the fact and centuries of wisdom have taught as that the real treasure is inside us. |
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Pearls of wisdom leave our mouths every day in an unthinking and mechanical manner. |
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But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. |
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The word resonates with enough folk wisdom to steer interpretation in a particular direction. |
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Motson, for instance, will now almost certainly be rethinking the wisdom of his decision to fire the starting pistol for the main race. |
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But then, overdosing on received wisdom and political correctness does tend to result in irony deficiency. |
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His knowledge, his passion and his wisdom from years of experience were invaluable to our program. |
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Some of the stories suitably blend the wisdom of the proverbs and the story line. |
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Again, your Honour, it is a question of the courts deferring to the wisdom of the legislature. |
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Some may question the wisdom of arranging a first date at an unfamiliar restaurant. |
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I question the wisdom of the leaders on both sides who have caused this polarisation. |
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In fact, the old issue of the wisdom of launching Internet divisions and potentially cannibalizing existing business has been resurrected. |
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I find myself sometimes wishing for a supernatural impartation of wisdom to my children, especially but not exclusively to my three sons. |
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Some people say that with age comes wisdom and knowledge, and as such you can live a much richer life. |
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In my opinion, a school is far more than an institution which imparts knowledge and wisdom to its students. |
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Artists are asked to submit works that explore the importance of cultural knowledge and the wisdom of elders. |
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The profession must recognise that it does not have a monopoly of either wisdom or knowledge. |
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The flashy intellectual brilliance of Fox is no match for the wisdom of ages, the common sense of the freeborn Englishman. |
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By tradition, the elderly have been regarded as repositories of wisdom and experience who are the unquestioned arbiters of a family dispute. |
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It also challenged the conventional wisdom that a bar in a secluded lane location could not be commercially viable. |
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As part of the American experiment, public libraries brought the wisdom of the ancient and modern tomes to the common man. |
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He taught generations of leftists the moral wisdom that you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. |
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In following your inner guide, wisdom and intuition you feel more whole, integrated and centered. |
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Established wisdom holds that good error messages are polite, precise, and constructive. |
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Our jaws are a little small to accept wisdom teeth that are often impacted and may need pulling. |
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There is some conventional wisdom that says, for varmint rifles, simply seat the bullet to touch the rifling. |
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He often wondered at the wisdom of his decision, but nevertheless stuck it out, convinced that one day things would change. |
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It is a book of hard-won wisdom and stark pleasure in the form of 500 lyrical aphorisms and epigrams. |
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The conventional wisdom is that the country's intelligentsia today are apolitical and money-grubbing, more interested in jobs than democracy. |
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Why would a culture wish in this way to ringbark itself, to sever the roots which have nourished the wisdom and understanding of the centuries? |
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There are different types of impacted wisdom teeth, depending on the way the tooth has grown through. |
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To use herbs and inner wisdom is a spiritual, psychic and intuitive process. |
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It's long been the received wisdom locally that this fractured slab of granite is the collection's most looked-for exhibit. |
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Burginde made much of very little, but there was wisdom in her ways, I could see. |
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She got to the heart of things with dispatch and great common sense, and she always wrapped her wisdom in humor. |
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The snake is one of the oldest symbols of power and of the wisdom of the unconscious. |
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We had a lot of mail from you lot about the wisdom of mixing phones and petrol stations. |
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The skillfulness involved is the union of compassion and wisdom as we have discussed. |
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Compassion and wisdom need to function together, combined with skillfulness, tolerance and patience. |
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The screen flashed the contents of each player's hand and the hosts provided a running commentary on the wisdom of every check, call, and raise. |
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Soon the holy image of the gorgon Medusa as an ancient symbol of female power and wisdom became totally unacceptable. |
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Impacted wisdom teeth that are not causing problems should be monitored during regular visits to your dentist. |
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People who have impacted wisdom teeth that are not causing problems do not need to have them removed. |
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I used to believe the conventional wisdom that the best way to answer the telephone was to smile when you are speaking. |
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Are you convinced that the Internet offers limitless possibilities and overturns conventional wisdom about how to run a company? |
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Conventional wisdom suggests that our ageing population is a real problem for the future. |
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Conventional wisdom lays the blame at the feet of opportunistic local criminals. |
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Formal studies as well as conventional wisdom show that campaigns with strong financial support have an edge in an election. |
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Farm manager Jeff Moyer used to follow conventional wisdom by putting down compost before corn, in the spring. |
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The scene is striking for its reversal of the conventional wisdom about musical performance. |
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The gut reaction was based on three arguments whose wisdom had been proved by long experience. |
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There's wisdom in that old adage about silence being golden, so pipe down a bit while you choose your words carefully. |
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Conventional wisdom holds that the North is looking for aid and investment to help feed its starving population and revive its moribund economy. |
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If the state's wisdom came from majoritarian prejudices, rather than the expertise of its technocrats, that would take us no further. |
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The teachings are telling us that if we see it this way, we will experience great wisdom and great bliss. |
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Reznikoff clearly preferred the wisdom of experience, a retrospective mood, to merely evoking the frenzy of the immediate moment. |
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Although the man is accused by some conservatives in Brazil of being flaky, in person it is his wisdom and humility that shine out. |
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Success or otherwise will be down to their accumulated wisdom and experience and we have to help them find that. |
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The current wisdom is that it is better to be undertrained than overtrained. |
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When Winston Churchill opposed the conventional wisdom that Hitler was tolerable, he was isolated from public life, his sanity questioned. |
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In the box there would be heritage stuff, the material evidence of the past, as well as history, the wisdom of the past. |
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Both the Soviets and the current government have promoted his wisdom in efforts to foster nationalism over tribalism. |
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Some murmuring continued, wondering the wisdom of bringing up the delicate issue so early. |
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Whatever your fee, take the money and run but don't expect your words of wisdom to make a scrap of difference to our council. |
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The guy has aged so incredibly well, with the suaveness of his youth and the wisdom of age rolled into the greatest screen presence of our day. |
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The exhibition asks us to question the validity and wisdom of conventional museology, and it does so with style and wit. |
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None the less skill and wisdom were needed in politics and the business of good government. |
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Bexley Council in their wisdom have now decided even the main roads need sleeping policemen. |
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In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old unforgotten wisdom stored up in us. |
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With enough money in the war chest, the conventional wisdom goes, populist approval can be won with slick advertising. |
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Later, her mom told me that she had an impacted wisdom tooth which was just starting to act up, and which I had helped to make go away. |
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You non-vegetarians are barbarous murderers, but please stop hurting our feelings by challenging the wisdom of a vegetarian diet! |
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Once they've detoxed we can only hope they will have the strength and wisdom to stay off dope for good. |
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Not only does God give us wisdom and His grace, we are blessed with His qualities, which is to be Christ-like. |
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There's also the mystical, spiritual side of Ayurveda, which sees all intelligence and wisdom as flowing from one source. |
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With such strange and mystical forces at your command, you will possess all the skills and wisdom you need to defeat the Dark Lord. |
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The stock market may behave irrationally, not following the wisdom of any investor. |
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Someone attempted to ask a question and initially the Speaker in his wisdom ruled it out of order, but upon reflection he allowed it. |
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We emphasize the seeming slowness of wisdom as acquired by intellect in its finite journeying through finite existences. |
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The opposite of high intellect is dullness or slowness, but the opposite of wisdom is foolishness, which is far more dangerous. |
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Our conventional wisdom says a man who kills an anima figure is surely doomed. |
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But the Chief Justice's wisdom and logic has overborne your desire to fight for that end. |
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The wisdom traditionally associated with age has to do with our limitations, with being chastened by experience. |
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There is much wisdom in our group experience, so take advantage of camping conferences, online chats, and visits to neighboring camps. |
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You may lose both the wisdom tooth and the tooth next to it because of extensive decay. |
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Its wisdom and gentleness were sorely needed in 1984, when the film was made. |
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This digest offers some collected wisdom regarding considerations and strategies for selecting and retaining teacher mentors. |
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Whether his theory of government was a masterpiece of political wisdom or an oversimplification remains a matter of some controversy. |
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Clinical examination of the wisdom teeth and the x-ray did not show any overt pathology. |
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However, in the mid-1990s, it began to question the wisdom of putting fluoride in the water supply. |
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He was a big man who commanded much respect and his advice and wisdom was cherished by those close to the scene. |
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He was supportive of many local ventures and his wisdom and sound advice was cherished and respected by all who sought his views. |
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There have also been extraordinary achievements when intelligent faith, deep learning, and imaginative wisdom have come together. |
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The wisdom contained in the honey from wild bees made it a complete food for this childhood era of mankind. |
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For two years hitting the low notes on his horn had been a painful experience and he attributed his aching jaw to impacted wisdom teeth. |
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She was afraid to go to a beit din because the folk wisdom in her community was that it would refuse her custody of the children. |
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It's as if some god has decreed what the accepted wisdom must be, and all but a few dissidents happily and mindlessly repeat it. |
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It will certainly make for a sharper atmosphere, with the wit and wisdom of the terrace choirmasters taken to newly creative heights. |
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Common wisdom had it that the table-topping Rhinos would once again choke on the big occasion. |
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In the past, removal of impacted wisdom teeth has been recommended even if the patient has not been experiencing problems. |
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According to the sutra system, this indivisibility of method and wisdom refers to wisdom affected by method and method affected by wisdom. |
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Occasionally the reader is treated to a rare triad of Welsh wisdom from the ancient and fragile Grey Book of Glynsabon. |
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But the messages are hideously banal, more likely to comment on the new kitchen cabinets than impart any profound wisdom from beyond the grave. |
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I observe a barely perceptible deepening of wisdom in the eyes, but I'm not sure that much of this isn't what I want to read into the image. |
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For a very long time the people of this planet have been engaged in one of the perennial debates over the collective wisdom of crowds. |
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There's nothing pretentious or facile about them-there's conviction and true wisdom at their heart, and they're always rooted in particulars. |
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I think it was at that point, having grown in wisdom and stature and favor with God and men, he had full cognizance of his deity and his mission. |
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It means the sublimity of God, the immeasurability of God's wisdom and the fathomless complexity of God's creative Spirit. |
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Last Thursday, a high-profile military booster in Congress suddenly shattered the conventional wisdom that immediate withdrawal is unthinkable. |
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The conventional wisdom is that a very small number of cold calls work out. |
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The fact that Jesus knows them also accords with Milton's belief that true wisdom and virtue must be tried and tested with the knowledge of evil. |
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Overall the sheltie is a compact dog with a moderately long head, the tiniest of ears and an expression of wisdom and kindness. |
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Affirm this Hindu wisdom regularly to cultivate patience and wise acceptance, even of situations that tend to arouse anger. |
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He had a Shepherd whose wisdom and power were infinite, and might therefore warrantably conclude he should not want, and need not fear. |
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He was friendly, with a gentle way about him and the wisdom that came with age. |
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Conventional wisdom has it that this kind of government intervention helped to create the East Asian economic miracle. |
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It is elaborated as a quality possessed by the sages but also treasured as folk wisdom and wit. |
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After many such disappointments, he realised the wisdom of moving away from the political arena. |
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The collective wisdom of cyclists is that the wind is always against you and that uphill slopes inexplicably outnumber downhill ones. |
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Most people understand the concept of brain death and see the wisdom in equating death with brain death. |
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These are words of wisdom from a dingbat that did otherwise and was lucky to get away with it without killing another motherboard. |
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This means the prognosis is probably not as grim as conventional wisdom would have us believe. |
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Conventional wisdom holds that the country is looking for aid to help feed its starving population. |
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One suspects he will need the wisdom of Solomon to handle the situation with total equanimity. |
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Gifted with finely honed communication skills, she displays entertaining, common-sense wisdom throughout. |
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On the other hand, he's good for a bit of wisdom or comic relief, so his character isn't a total waste. |
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With the wisdom of those past years we need to tweak it a bit because people like their comforts. |
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Music really is a mystical force, a deep psychological wisdom that has the power to heal what is happening to human beings on this planet. |
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When war looms large on the horizon, tiny, meek and often unheard voices of children counsel the wisdom of peace. |
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In this engagement they successfully combined civil administration wisdom and anthropology. |
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Dentists generally recommend extraction of unfavourably positioned wisdom teeth. |
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Crazy wisdom versus sane idiocy is a recurring tendency in modern American poetry. |
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The looks that I get in return for my pearls of wisdom are invariably of the blank variety. |
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He is acknowledged as a man who is selfless in giving advice to those who are eager to listen to his pearls of wisdom on racing and breeding. |
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What pearls of wisdom can I impart as a result of yet another year's experience? |
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And to be honest, after 4 years of publishing my pearls of wisdom on a near-daily basis, I still don't really know. |
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The pearls of wisdom may, however, be lost at times in the factual information, and a few more diagrams would have helped. |
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The festival closes at 2pm with words of wisdom from Wigan scriptwriter Paul Finch who will conduct a question and answer session. |
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But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. |
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The skills of working practitioners are found in constant dialogue with the theoretical wisdom of the clerisy. |
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As you can see, all those people will go on to have happy, successful lives if they just follow my words of wisdom and sagacity. |
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True thought of the wisdom of the experiment erases unclearness and lack of spiritual knowledge. |
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Yet aggregating the collective wisdom and putting a probability on it is a very valuable function in itself. |
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In an address at York Minster, the Archbishop of York paid tribute to the unstinting service, profound wisdom and unswerving faith of the Queen. |
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The conventional Vietnamese wisdom was that certain foods were low-class, common food, even though these foods were nutritious. |
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In my infinite wisdom I decided to fill the holes in myself whilst Gary was working. |
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He was a suave smoothie who sang about relationships with a mixture of wisdom and regret. |
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Characteristic of the Middle Way is a balanced life, one that cultivates wisdom and compassion. |
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His wisdom leaves the viewer with something to aspire to, something to chase after. |
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In my youth, the conventional wisdom was that he was a white-shoe number-cruncher who couldn't admit he had made a mistake. |
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The conventional wisdom scorns him for untethering punishment from individual wrongdoing. |
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Now he was like some Steven King rustic, issuing cryptic wisdom from the porch to a tourist who just wants directions to the hotel. |
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One of the really neat things about conventional wisdom is that sometimes it's true. |
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Still, who am I to question the editorial wisdom of BBC Classical Music TV, or whatever they're called this week? |
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Unfortunately, the wisdom of sinologists does not have much practical use today. |
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Inspiring to have a parent who's managed to develop wisdom but still stay as young at heart as they were when I was tiny. |
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The Athenian believed that the traditional sources of Greek wisdom had become dysfunctional. |
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She explains that she's bound the pages in red because to the Cherokee the colour symbolises wisdom through wounding. |
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She tells me they're giving an award to the senator because he stands athwart conventional wisdom on many issues. |
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Last night I was trying to key you into some of the wisdom we have accumulated through this close-knit project of ours. |
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The humorousness of the phrasing of this home-spun wisdom only serves to make it more pernicious. |
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The author reads them as narratives of resistance to the received wisdom of the health educators. |
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Critical ventures should not be bound by received wisdom or apparent common sense. |
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This superior wisdom is only attainable through the practice of meditation. |
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Because wisdom teeth are at the back of the mouth, close to the airway, any infection around the area can potentially become very serious. |
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The thumb and index finger of the right hand stand for wisdom and method combined. |
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The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. |
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In any case, his wisdom will be sorely missed here in the basketball blogosphere. |
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I waited eagerly for words of wisdom from a man at the very pinnacle of his career, I thought he'd be sure to know what to put right. |
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Ideally, scholars grow in understanding and wisdom by gaining and sharing knowledge. |
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For all her power, he felt she lacked wisdom and judgement, and it was past time she learned her place. |
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She was pretty sure that she was the one who gave him the words of wisdom that kept him going. |
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The authors of these guides have years of inside knowledge, wisdom and practical experience to pass on to you. |
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He thought you might have some pertinent words of wisdom that you could impart upon me to help me deal with my troubles. |
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She still has powerful words of wisdom about the need to find peaceful means to resolve conflict. |
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As if our cheap words and wisdom could somehow rectify the suffering of this world! |
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Then we grow elderly, and we have the greater experience and wisdom of a lifetime with which to understand. |
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Others, however, question the wisdom of such a decision and argue that it seems an expensive way to boost circulation. |
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Some economists have questioned the wisdom of such a large investment, the BBC said. |
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The utilitarian wisdom that which benefits the greater number is what is good holds true in this regard. |
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In the wake of such a tragedy, some may even question the wisdom of trying to rebuild the city at all. |
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He took his wisdom to consist in the fact that he knows that he does not know. |
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It was about then that I questioned the wisdom of skipping supper before coming out. |
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But some critics have questioned the wisdom of a costly project that could go horribly over budget. |
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This has led some commentators to question the wisdom of having the majority of a fund's money invested in equities. |
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If spending on this scale is sensible, its wisdom ought to be demonstrable. |
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When sick I want to be cared for by doctors who every day doubt the value and wisdom of what they do and this book will help make such doctors. |
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This goes against the technical wisdom of classifying markets by value of free floating stocks alone. |
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We all reckon the plan is to do a root canal on the bad tooth and remove the wisdom tooth. |
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Which is how I once again came to be in the dentist chair that I had been trying to weasel out of, getting my wisdom tooth removed. |
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Gum disease can affect the first and second molars and the bone surrounding the tooth, as well as the impacted wisdom tooth. |
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The mistakes I made could have happened with any recipe, so these wisps of wisdom should come in handy even when not cooking meatloaf. |
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In 2002, FIFA's sagacity and wisdom was confirmed when teams from five different federations advanced to the quarter-finals. |
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I want children to grow up under the influence of the wisdom of the ancient sages. |
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As with the 2000 election, will you inject your sage Texas wisdom into your 2000 election projections? |
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More than a century of conventional wisdom says that winter, when the ice is both hard and plentiful, is the best time to travel the polar pack. |
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Judges and prosecutors are therefore well advised to practice the law with wisdom and compassion. |
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An aura of wisdom surrounded her but she looked so young she could have passed as one of Serena's classmates. |
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Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! |
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Proceedings started inauspiciously for the home team, when prevailing wisdom was they needed early points to stand any chance. |
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Because the collective wisdom of industrial relations seems to be, that if you have your opponent over a barrel, you can name your price. |
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She has the natural voice, the crazy ad-lib skills, and an ability to project wisdom that is well beyond her years. |
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Yes conditions were that bad, and yet officials in their wisdom decided that the game should go ahead. |
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The man has clearly lost his head and his thinking is devoid of the wisdom he could have had. |
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We ask you also to join us in praying for great wisdom for our world leaders upon whom rest such awesome responsibilities. |
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Never in all the years I have read the mailbag have I seen such down-to-earth wisdom and good advice on this issue. |
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Nor will we gain any great wisdom through the more punitive, ascetic methods. |
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I read this story a long time ago when I was discovering the wisdom of Zen, Taoism and Buddhism. |
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Mahd might have a witty sense of humour but he always has words of wisdom to say to me. |
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The perceived wisdom is that the Young Toffs supported Neil's rectorial campaign. |
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Nobel counters and corrects a lot of PR-driven conventional wisdom about the plans, designs, objectives, and personalities that dominated the redevelopment process. |
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It is the path that was first taught more than 2,500 years ago by the Buddha Shakyamuni, who succeeded in achieving complete realization of perfect wisdom and compassion. |
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It's conventional wisdom that many people seeing an intriguing headline share the link with friends before or even instead of actually reading the attached article. |
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Let us pray for peace, not violence for Ferguson and our country no matter what the jury in their wisdom might decide. |
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She took her mind's wisdom as a way of showing her growing maturity. |
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With the midterms approaching, conventional wisdom has it the Dems will get a 1994-style trouncing. |
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Constituting an important portion of the ancient literature of China, classified books and collectanea are the embodiment of the wisdom of the past. |
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The standards of the eighteenth-century clockmaker were no longer an expensive skill, but part of the conventional wisdom of mechanical engineering. |
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The 2008 GOP presidential flameout Mitt Romney is the 2012 GOP front runner, or so conventional wisdom has it. |
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There's wisdom in the words, and I let them settle around me, feeling as if I've been handed a nugget of something valuable, something that might apply to me. |
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But he was always uncommonly gracious, a truly gentle man, willing to dispense wisdom and perspective when asked. |
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That would be a nice little layer of icing, because it would prove the smug conventional wisdom as wrong as it usually is. |
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Today, we still believe that wisdom in politics above all counsels realism as to means and idealism as to ends. |
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The old woman showed great wisdom in asking the question that she did. |
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Linnaeus's consistency and wisdom in developing and defending the binomial system of hierarchical classification carried him through to intellectual victory. |
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It is for this reason that commentators question the wisdom of the deal. |
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Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this. |
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Since at least some respondents misreported their use of drugs, the veracity of, and the wisdom in using, other information from these respondents may be questioned. |
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Thus far, especially in Scotland where the slavish adherence to the received wisdom of the unions is strongest, there is little sign of that thistle being grasped. |
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He made an easy target, the know-it-all liberal egghead who demeaned the wisdom of the American people. |
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Here are their words of wisdom for others considering a fixer-upper. |
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Lesley is in the wars again this time with a smashed wisdom tooth. |
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At the time there were no magazines that focused on people who started companies, and the conventional wisdom held that there was no market for such publications. |
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In novel after novel, she would recreate the rarefied Oxbridge milieu, a world peopled by erudite lost souls relentlessly seeking wisdom and love. |
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His nameless sorrows ensure that he stands aloof, his distance from the other characters endowing him with a wisdom absent in the quarrelsome officers and journalists. |
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The strength of the evidence for selenium and prostate cancer approaches the highest level, but even so, questions remain about the wisdom of making recommendations. |
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Perhaps nothing articulates better the maxim that there is a place for everything, or the need for unfettered agency than the wisdom of the Igbo proverb with which I began. |
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This special tone, a kind of enlightened tristesse, is the sign of a person who senses the existence of wisdom and ultimate good but is too humble to assert it. |
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The old wisdom used to be to load a nightstand shotgun with birdshot. |
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Forget the humor of Stephen Colbert, wisdom of Steve Jobs, or inanity of Arnold Schwarzenegger. |
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You will be like some Gnostic visitor, someone who fell to earth to awaken those who have fallen asleep and have forgotten the wisdom that would make human life effective. |
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It is, increasingly, the received wisdom in the West that nation building is a fool's errand. |
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The conventional wisdom around davos is that they are, if not the has-beens, then at least the disappointment of the decade. |
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Having failed to find funding for other, more ambitious scripts, the trio realized the wisdom in sticking with a subject they knew and doing the story as a mockumentary. |
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Why must I be subjected to teams of lackwits telling lousy jokes, quipping lame quips, discussing current events with all the wit and wisdom of the village idiot? |
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Nobody questions the wisdom behind the decision to set up the commission. |
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Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. |
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Oprah so enjoyed his folksy demeanor and words of wisdom that she invited him onto her show. |
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The wisdom of great sages of antiquity comes to us mainly through the aural tradition, and so has almost certainly suffered distortion through intermediaries. |
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His disarming professorial habit of asking hard-boiled members of the press to repeat his words of wisdom after him somehow never seems offensive. |
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Common wisdom has long held that if you romance a cheater he or she will one day cheat on you. |
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I had no words of wisdom to dispel his gloom, no comfort to offer him. |
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Conventional wisdom has it that the path to pop fame is instant and easy. |
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Perhaps it is their wisdom and spirit that I respect and treasure. |
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Prescribing of drugs for Alzheimer's disease and prophylactic extraction of wisdom teeth showed trends consistent with, but not obviously a consequence of, the guidance. |
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In addition to agreeing that they should come in immediately, they also offered the time honored wisdom of eating soda crackers upon rising in the morning. |
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If the certainty of the wisdom of uncertainty is itself uncertain, the force of the definition crumbles by logical standards. |
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In this way a benevolent spirit is forged and wisdom is free to flourish. |
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Years ago, the common wisdom was that four-stroke outboards would never exceed 100 hp because their complicated innards added considerable weight. |
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