He saw in his friend's father a man steeped in wisdom he could no long share with his son.
And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.
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They're in charge with running the post office, but yet the Congress, in its wisdom, has tied their hands every which way in order for them to actually run the post office in a revenue neutral way.
But in their wisdom, the American people elected Barack Obama to succeed Bush in the White House.
In her wisdom, she knew that I would never make a similar mistake again.
Cutting interest rates has become accepted in conventional wisdom as the sensible response to a slowing economy.
They seek out grad students and young docs, not established sages whom they deem mired in conventional wisdom.
It doesn't help that Schumacher, in his wisdom, has styled the story-within-the-story as a lurid MTV noir pastiche.
And perhaps a lesson in the wisdom of finding a professional you can trust to help you with your investments.
Perhaps his story is more powerful because you're not only taking in his wisdom, but you are experiencing his death.
They feared Thatcherism was too big a shock to the British system and trusted in the wisdom of Westminster and Whitehall.
In the wisdom of the cloud, there is an expert for everything.
Nowadays, we seem to put greater faith in the wisdom of crowds.
It is a capacity, as NYU professor of neurology points out in The Wisdom Paradox, that is fundamental to our mental world.
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That our legislators in their wisdom may soon make this man secretary of defense says as much about them as it does about him.
But in well-spoken articulate ways, I hear them speak about doing the right thing, and increasingly I see them growing in the wisdom to do it.
So by this line of reasoning, the only way the US can lead is by negative example - which the world in its wisdom will reject.
We will be called upon also more and more in the future to give the wisdom in relation to those facts and the presentation of that intelligence.
When it became clear that voters, in their wisdom, were going to ban the manufacture, importation, and sale of alcohol, did he mount a political campaign to avert this self-inflicted calamity?
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Society, in its wisdom, has concluded that inflicting intense pain upon innocent bystanders through a long period of high unemployment is not the best way of discouraging irrational exuberance in financial markets.
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Our founding fathers in their wisdom chose at the outset of independence to use integration rather than assimilation as a national policy to manage race relations and to forge a new nation.
Obviously, the specifics of how that were to work if Congress, in its wisdom, were to take it up and Republican leaders were to allow it to proceed, then the details would be negotiated.
After a week or so of reading on the subject, what struck me is that some of the best wisdom I have gained in business is wisdom that would directly apply to our healthcare system.
As near as you can discern from the cryptic labels of his liquid soaps, the late Emil Bronner believed in the wisdom of Rudyard Kipling, the work ethic of Mark Spitz and the unity of mankind.
When Quito recently defaulted on bonds bearing the name of the man who engineered an earlier bail-out -- then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady -- the Clinton Administration, in its wisdom, decided to make an example of Ecuador.
This suggests that, rather than pushing companies to explore some new area which the government in its wisdom or folly has decided is the sector of the future, industrial policy should encourage competition instead, thus reducing firms' tendency to seek out less contested arenas.
And because the Soviet Union was no more, Frank thought in his wisdom, and of course he was right, because he's right about everything, that since the other signatory to the treaty no longer existed that he should get the American signatory to call it null and void and call for vacating the treaty.
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