But Yergin assembles the pieces and provides us mere mortals with a clear view.
Embrace the possibility that we mere mortals, not gods, are fit to direct our own destiny.
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The rhetorical choices open to authors are available to the rest of us mortals, too.
Sachin Tendulkar joined the ranks of mortals in the eyes of Indian cricket fans.
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It seems to be getting harder for mere mortals to make money in stocks these days.
POLITICIANS, more than most mortals, like to be remembered by something tangible and preferably grandiose.
Books by professional sportsmen can read like divine proclamations for the consumption of mere mortals.
Apple realized that the best approach was to make a device that was simple for mere mortals.
They were the gods from Olympus and there was a leap to us mortals walking around.
They may also have a bigger impact on the wealthy, who are particularly tax-sensitive, than on ordinary mortals.
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"Ordinary mortals cannot get into the Ferrari factory, " explains Rick Carey , auctions editor of Car Collector magazine.
We like to imagine our sporting heroes as supermen, capable of physical deeds impossible to us mortals watching on.
Mere mortals may not understand the link between the exchange rate and inflation.
At one time he had tried to make his meaning plain to his fellow-mortals by gesture and by sound.
Perhaps a better way of putting it would be that us mere mortals need to experiment with only one.
The BP Oil Spill remains an intensely interesting and important story, impossible for mere mortals to ever clearly convey.
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Given that the experts cannot come up with a consistent line what hope is there for us mere mortals?
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This seemed almost reckless in its certainty, with screw shots, multi-cushion shots and backspin that appeared impossible to mortals.
If this could happen to a former president of the United States, what about the rest of us mere mortals?
Unlike ordinary mortals, he can move in and out of stocks and bonds without an annual tax bill cutting his returns.
It seems to enjoy toying with us mere mortals, and it seems to enjoy teaching us a little humility as well.
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Money is becoming much more of a concept than a physical entity, and most ordinary mortals haven't really noticed the switch.
For us mere mortals, we'd be happy enough to just get hold of a First Else to play with for nostalgia's sake.
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What lessons can ordinary mortals learn from these very old media titans?
If you can make your principal residence your business home many of the non-deductible expenses of ordinary mortals will be deductible to you.
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Dr Keith Prowse, chairman of the British Lung Foundation agreed that these cyclists had respiratory systems that set them apart from ordinary mortals.
The real dwelling plight lies in this, that mortals ever search anew for the nature of dwelling, that they must ever learn to dwell.
But what the data do not do is compare hedge fund performance with that of mutual funds--those comparatively boring investment pools for ordinary mortals.
Once every three months, mere mortals get a glimpse at the portfolios billionaire investing legends when they are required to disclosed their end-of-quarter holdings.
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For us mortals, a federal judge has decided that the best deterrent for future would-be rogue traders is to send guys like Dooley to prison.
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