That disturbing thought was the intriguing conclusion of a study I recently happened across in Harvard Business Review.
Paul Franco's study of Oakeshott's thought leaves his outwardly cheerful life on one side.
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Dr Nick Hopkinson, a member of the British Lung Foundation, thought the study was helpful back-up when patients ask them for antibiotics.
The study of art, they thought, should be direct and immersive.
The breadth of the study and involvement of an independent foundation without a political bent on fracking is thought to be able to trump other, conflicting studies performed so far.
Those thought to have pneumonia were excluded from the study due to the severity of the disease if not treated promptly.
Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and the words with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.
The biggest risk in many of the current batch of deals is that the private-equity firms discover the cash-flow models to be less predictable than they thought, says Colin Blaydon of Tuck Business School's Centre for the Study of Private Equity and Entrepreneurship.
Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.
Many sharks perish as bycatch, but increasingly they are being hunted for their fins, a delicacy in China and a lucrative commodity. (The annual export of fins is thought to be worth about a billion dollars.) One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million and seventy-three million sharks are killed for their fins every year.
This latest study suggests that this may be less of a problem than previously thought.
The power of this type of genetic analysis was demonstrated earlier this year when a study of 2, 000 breast cancers showed the cancer should be thought of as 10 completely separate diseases.
In 2007, an RHS study of young people aged between 13 and 18 found that 62% thought horticulture was another word for farming, while most said it was a career for "old or retired people".
The study could not control for whether the individual was the kind of person who thought that someone they know may be planning on trying to shoot them.
The study reveals that what marketers consider to be high-value engagement is not always thought of in the same way by consumers.
One of the study's co-authors, Robin Ejsmond-Frey, rowed for Oxford and thought it would be a good activity to study.
Dr Alessandro Lugli, who carried out the study which appeared in the American Review of Human Pathology, told the BBC News website he thought theories about alternative explanations for Napoleon's death would continue to be put forward.
The cultivation of virtue has become a hot subject at universities, along with the related study of the civic institutions (the church, the family, local voluntary associations) which are thought to foster virtue best.
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