"France chose nuclear because we have no oil, gas or coal resources, and recent events have only reinforced the wisdom of our choice, " says Laurent Striker, senior vice president at Electricite de France, the world's largest power company.
Never mind the deep pockets for a moment, if only to understand the sort of wisdom that provides for that sort of monetary largess.
Paradoxically, the only way the young man can gain the wisdom he seeks is by ridding himself of the selfish motivations that inspired him to arrogantly approach the Rabbi in the first place, loudly proclaiming his qualifications.
For the rest of us who worry about the wisdom of America being the only nuclear power (actual or wannabe) that is systematically engaged in denuclearization, however, the prospect of a future strategic "Monad" is alarming.
With bloated tuition costs and questionable academic standards, it's time we challenge the conventional wisdom that college is the only path to advanced education and economic success.
Khan's performance in the evening's Other Debate calls into the question not only his true purposes, but the judgment and wisdom of those who do rely upon him.
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Of the 318 participants, only 30 had more correct predictions that the collective wisdom of the crowd. (I scored a measly 11 out of 24.) The collective group correctly predicted 17 out of 24 Oscar winners.
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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.
Understanding that your "friends" may really be nothing of the kind requires that you be sufficiently paranoid--that in your organizational life you implement the strategic wisdom offered by Andrew Grove in his book Only the Paranoid Survive.
The wisdom of crowds only really applies when forecasts are genuinely independent, as when farmers are guessing the weight of a bull at a country fair.
Until the past decade or so, it had been accepted wisdom in the genetics community that only the tiniest percentage of the human genome contains the instructions that determine how we look, feel and act whether we (or our ancestral population group) are more likely to be grumpy or gregarious, impetuous or cautious, generous or a Grinch, a speedster or a marathoner, slow-witted or a math ace.
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On immigration, we can only wish that politicians possessed the clarity and wisdom of Napolitano.
The prevailing wisdom, however flawed, is still that products should only be sold to the young.
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.
There is competition between barbershops, not only for the best haircut, but the best wisdom and talk, isn't there.
What Sonia will bring to the court, then, is not only the knowledge and experience acquired over a course of a brilliant legal career, but the wisdom accumulated from an inspiring life's journey.
The received wisdom in Washington is that the two parties are so divided on tax that only an election can resolve the impasse.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, only about 42% of the affluent consider themselves to be aligned with the Republican party.
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By holding back from TV and concert appearances, the group and its management went against the industry-accepted wisdom that you can only hold fans' attention by plying them with nonstop appearances and regularly dispensed songs.
Our interest is not only to study his investment wisdom, but to decode how the man makes a deal.
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Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.
" Shortly before his death in 1928, Barron encouraged the Journal staff to go beyond basic facts: "What I want you to remember in respect to wisdom is that more and more we are called upon not only to be the gatherers of facts, but to set forth intelligence regarding those facts.
And with worldly wisdom he has built up an extraordinary network of connections with the powerful not only in the United States but in every continent.
Who sit on park benches and are reminded that wisdom, beauty and gentleness speaks in the guise of a duck who asks only to be given a little fresh water and a place to raise her young.
Word got around that Rosen was some kind of fashion-biz guru who would freely dispense the lost wisdom of Seventh Avenue and would nudge his design partners back in line only if he felt they had strayed from their own path.
Perpetual font of wisdom (and Worldwide Studios President) Shuhei Yoshida has warned that the PlayStation Move is the only controller making the leap to the next generation.
In an era of professional football defined by specialization defensive ends who play only on passing downs, running backs who only catch passes, tight ends whose lone job is to block the Patriots under Belichick have bucked conventional wisdom.
They had the wisdom to change their strategy and execution after their humiliating loss to the Patriots, 45-3 only a few weeks earlier.
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Each year I ask rabid NFL fans, restaurateurs, sports fans and non-sports fans about the wisdom of moving the Super Bowl to Saturday, and the feedback overwhelmingly suggests that there is not only support for it, but that both the American culture and economy would benefit.
He is also vengeful, manipulative and cleverer by far than almost anyone else he encounters, including and especially the high-born aristocrats who surround Henry and who despise Cromwell on the grounds - absurd to modern eyes, but the universally accepted wisdom in the early 16th Century - that he is an upstart of humble birth, and that only they are fit to govern.
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