But in contemporary society, we have trouble talking about the obvious: The transition from boy to man is a risky endeavor, and there can be a lot of collateral damage.
As individuals, we have trouble distinguishing between anecdotes: "My neighbor took zinc for her cold and she said it really helped, " and data: Most colds last four days, so you could smoke yak-dung cigarettes on day three and feel better on day four.
One of the tough truths of management is that we all have trouble making choices.
We never see them coming, but we have no trouble concocting post hoc explanations for why they should have been obvious.
"The level of anger, the level of aggression, the level of violence in which we relate to one another, I think it expresses a much deeper trouble we have to deal with our past, " she said.
Across the globe, we have no shortage of trouble spots deserving our concentrated consideration.
"We don't have trouble telling someone they're not suited to be a musician or football player or something like that, " Chapman says.
"We have a lot of trouble right now, and he's a different way to do politics, to change things from the ground, " said Grillo supporter Martina Paladino.
We are not trying to create something that causes more trouble than we already have.
Most of what is in the bill is long overdue and I do not think would have caused us too much trouble even if we were to have sufficient time to discuss it in detail in committee.
Even so, it's good to know that we'll soon have no trouble borrowing Penguin's edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge without having to hop on the subway first.
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"Judging from tonight's Season 2 premiere, we could have saved ourselves the trouble of worrying about whether the show would find a way to generate tension, " its critic wrote.
The manual warns to "use only the power adapter and micro-USB cable that come with your Nexus 4 Wireless Charger", but we didn't have any trouble with other USB power sources beyond longer charging times.
"If we didn't have that money, we'd be in trouble, " said Alan.
The longer the price remains that high, the more trouble we'll have down the road.
"We're going to have some trouble, I think, because he's been commanding over a hundred soldiers, and they do what he tells them to, " Kramer said.
Remember, change in this nation only occurred because the lawyers were the ones who foster change, and if we don't have people of color to continue that, we're in big trouble.
But for now we have the patent system we have, and both Google and Samsung look like they might be in trouble.
Coming up, after days of rioting in the French suburbs, we look at why police there have had such trouble quelling the violence.
Dr. ANTHONY PENNINGTON-CROSS (Real Estate Economics, Marquette University): What's going to happen if we have a bunch of borrowers who are in trouble in the subprime market and they start getting FHA-insured loans?
"We have to believe that this remains a company in trouble, " Banc of America Securities analyst David Strasser said in a recent report.
We do not anticipate however that the company will have trouble meeting such commitments as it has a strong balance sheet and is growing earnings per share at a quick pace.
The media pundits always like to give an explanation for everything that happens in the markets, but today, even the most creative reporter would have trouble making since of the action we are seeing.
If you or I were running companies that heavily fined, would we have to admit to ourselves that we were having real trouble managing them?
We have given out dates that are markers for us getting into trouble.
"Most all the restaurants that I'm used to were open, and we went to several of them and didn't have any trouble, " he said.
If the only art we have is that which is put out commercially, we're in trouble because everybody will think that the only thing we liked was half-dressed women dancing on a video.
Across the technology landscape, we are seeing many companies that do not have enough general IT managers and are having trouble finding more.
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On the LIHEAP program, the home heating assistance program, we doubled the home heating assistance program when I first came into office, in part because there was a huge energy spike, and so folks -- if we had just kept it at the same level, folks would have been in real trouble.
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He may be in trouble somewhere, he could be trapped as far as we know, we have absolutely no idea.
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