Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
quote by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
quote by Markus Wolf
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School
Continually its progressions and rows,
the teacher is on patrol,
his cane sometimes swishes painfully,
there are theorems and more theorems
which are driving us nuts
with differentiation and other calculations,
and we are taught about Ballot and Christaller
and models are all around me,
one after the other they do pass
while there's no end to examination papers
and the girls are lovely
but continually I am caned
and this is why I find high school
somewhat bewitching.
poem by Gert Strydom
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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
quote by Peter Jennings
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I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
quote by Timothy White
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Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
quote by Steve Albini
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I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
quote by Maria Bartiromo
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
quote by Anna Quindlen
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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
quote by Adam Schiff
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
quote by Ed Miliband
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
quote by Arianna Huffington
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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
quote by Nick Clooney
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If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
quote by Molly Ringwald
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
quote by Archibald MacLeish
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You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.
quote by Mike Hawkins
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
quote by Bob Woodward
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Frustration (Life Poem)
Head throbs, I want results, I need results, today,
No dice, I want a gun, persuasion, for results, now,
Idiots all around, is it me or is it them, I wonder,
I see them dead, better than Red I think, but,
Why so hard I ask, always the same, pain again,
A voice inside says, that is why, I still get paid
Big bucks, to take this strain, and not complain,
I need a cat, to kick, humane, because it seems,
It will survive with nine lives, and I have only one.
poem by Ian Beckett
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War of any kind is abhorrent. Remember that since the end of World War II, over 40 million people have been killed by conventional weapons. So, if we should succeed in averting nuclear war, we must not let ourselves be sold the alternative of conventional weapons for killing our fellow men. We must cure ourselves of the habit of war.
quote by Patrick White
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Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.
quote by Carl Sagan
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