It may not have been a good week for conventional wisdom at Forbes Leadership, but it definitely was a good week for women.
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She'd been born in 1943 and she delivered good old-fashioned wisdom for women of the 21st century.
Honoring Ganesh (known in Mumbai as Ganapati), the elephant-headed Lord of wisdom, good fortune and obstacles, the 10-day festival sees thousands of huge Ganesh idols displayed in "pandals" (pavilions) around the city.
In order to do good, common practice and wisdom told us, we could not also do well.
I'm not necessarily a religious man, but I do believe in much of the wisdom from the good book, like Proverbs 12:10.
Money is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the good life, for happiness and wisdom.
That's a good example of how the true wisdom of the nation rests not just with those who serve in our capitals, but with those who live in our communities.
She doesn't sugarcoat the very real challenges that come with age physical limitations, loss of loved ones, illness but there's good stuff, too, like wisdom, courage and a rich inner life that gets better as we age.
As Eco-Republic makes clear, a surprisingly good place to start is with the wisdom of the ancients.
And as far as marketability is concerned, I challenge that the wisdom that wrestling cannot be good theater.
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But Byrne challenged the conventional wisdom, saying Twitter is not good for having a discussion.
While popular wisdom is that any publicity is good publicity, academic research has largely shown that negative word of mouth hurts company brand and sales.
This year I want to focus my list of connections down to those that matter, the ones I can help and who can help me, people who are good at paying forward and who have some wisdom to impart.
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But they fly in the face of the conventional wisdom about heart disease: Basically, that good cholesterol is always good, and bad cholesterol is always bad.
For those would-be Tolkienites waiting to see The Hobbit on the screen who are unblessed with the knowledge, lore and wisdom of the Tolkien legendarium, I have good news.
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Conventional wisdom led many to believe that home ownership is good for everyone no matter what and that we should make it available to as many people as possible.
At the beginning of the Obama administration, I had the audacity to hope that the new president would defy conventional wisdom and become a proponent of trade and a good spokesman for its benefits.
Yes, contrary to common wisdom and current euro zone practice, governments can and have put gold to good use.
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It's becoming accepted wisdom in many quarters that protecting intellectual property when it comes to medicines is good for pharmaceutical companies, but bad for patients.
Finally, to paraphrase the almost 300 year-old wisdom of Edmund Burke, the only way for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
In his closing remarks, the Director-General expressed his hope that the tradition of these annual Summit meetings will continue, further increasing regional cooperation "through the political wisdom of its leaders and their belief in the pursuit of dialogue and exchange for the common good".
But now that cricketing received wisdom has finally embraced the peerless talents of the statistically freakish South African Jacques Kallis, Samaraweera has a good case to be considered the most underrated cricketer of the age.
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