"I've talked to all three of them and they understand the lesson and the importance of the task ahead, " Stambouli added.

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The lesson at Parsons is how little we understand and how poorly we judge without the help of the passage of time.

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And once I arrived onboard, I came to understand the other important part of this leadership lesson.

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Much theoretical work has been done to understand and model such changes, but the lesson I draw from chaos theory is that recognizing such changes in hindsight may be simple, but predicting them in advance is and will continue to be extremely difficult.

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If anything, the lesson of 2008 is that we understand risk far, far less.

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And that's the lesson that Mr. Romney and the Republicans in Congress don't seem to understand, they don't seem to get.

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As an opera singer you have to understand that going through those rough moments is part of the lesson, of development, of enrichment.

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The other lesson to be drawn is to really understand what you are doing when you have loans accumulate on whole life policies.

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