In short, for anyone still laboring under the impression that age is the bringer of wisdom and serenity, the film may be a terrible shock.

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We live in an age where the wisdom of the crowd is a tangible asset.

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If you're among the 60% of adults not already saving for a comfortable old age, conventional wisdom holds that you should halve your age to get the percentage of your salary to be set aside.

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Their intergroup wisdom score averaged 45 at the age of 25 and 55 at 75.

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The writer-director Cameron Crowe is attempting a modern screwball comedy the kind of thing that, sixty years ago, would have been a swiftly paced romantic farce but he has scaled the movie as an epic and turned his heroine into a font of New Age wisdom.

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At age 2, a child does not understand what happened, but with the wisdom, care and support of his loved ones, over time, he will.

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In the age of Facebook and Google, it seems there should be a better, more systematic way of harnessing this communal wisdom and cultivating this sort of medical discovery.

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