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By Jackson Galaxy The common wisdom in introducing a newly adopted cat to a resident one in the past was to open the carrying case and «let them work it out.»

The common wisdom in introducing a newly adopted cat to a resident one in the past was to open the carrying case and «let them work it out.»

The common wisdom in screenwriting is that bad novels make great movies and great novels turn into duds.

Common wisdom in this field had held that the endothelial cells must help immune cells squeeze through by contracting themselves like small muscles, but the present study found no evidence for such contraction - based help.

Common wisdom in investing tells us that we should set a target asset allocation in our portfolios and periodically rebalance to ensure our portfolio stays in line with our allocation goal.

«The common wisdom in the sector is you either want to be very big or small.

Not exact matches

«While common wisdom has it that higher volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates, as was the case in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.

Even though common wisdom suggests that rote repetition helps us remember things, mixing in new information may be a superior strategy.

Not only that, they fly in the face of some massively overhyped myths that masquerade as common wisdom, these days, especially among the entrepreneurial crowd:

While it is common wisdom that smaller niche social networks also deserve your attention, they mostly remain underused in mining a potential customer.

In the best tradition of all religious «wisdom literature» or scriptures, as true believers like to call them, are widely common source or plagiarized as non-believers like to call it.

There is, of course, no gainsaying the common - sense psychological wisdom contained in a program to enhance one's self - image, to develop and utilize our highest potential for creativity, for mental and physical health.

Through dialogue undertaken in a common quest for wisdom, participants will consider these more fundamental questions against the background of transcendent commitments and a common recognition of the priority of first things.

What all have in common is the assumption of self - sufficiency, the belief that each of us, and the brave new world we inhabit, can go merrily along forever, beholden to nothing more than our own inherent wisdom and virtue.

But the more frequently stated goal is as revolutionary as it claims to be — to displace the common wisdom regarding human sexuality in both church and culture.

Since the second century of the common era, Christian pilgrims have gathered here to pray, worship, and reflect on the wisdom in Paul's writings.

Even in this «extreme» book, which attempts to call into question our ability both to know God's will and to predict our fate, we find two root affirmations common to the wisdom tradition, based as it is in creation: (I) God is sovereign, and (2) present life is to be lived in joy as God's gift.

I've argued in a few pieces now that this is emblematic of his overall approach to governance (like here)-- a rhetorical insistence on a robust populism but a reflexive tendency to replace any deference to the prudence of common folks with the wisdom of techno - experts.

We been given in the Whole heavenly scriptures including Quran stories that when are read or recited they are supposed to inspire us from it's wisdom of the old, reading those stories is like feeding our senses for knowing which becomes to be known as man's common senses.

This despair, as I have said, is the commonest, it is so common that only thereby can one explain the rather common opinion in common intercourse that despair is something belonging to youth, which appears only in youthful years, but is not to be found in the settled man who has come to the age of maturity and the years of wisdom.

If we believe in the wisdom of God as one wisdom shared with us both in creation and revelation, then the call to the common search for truth is a brilliant solution to the problem of tolerance and dialogue when faced with the claims of revealed religion.

The words of wisdom are prevailingly words of counsel uttered on rational grounds; but the appeal to common or uncommon good sense is never (not even in Ecclesiastes) a denial of or in opposition to the mode of inspiration and revelation.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

Huffington Post: Hispanic Churches, Historically Spanish - Speaking, Adopt More English To Appeal To U.S. - Born Latinos While it's become common wisdom that English - speaking churches will shrink as younger generations, who are typically less religious, become the majority, the Spanish church - known across denominations for its religious fervor - is battling to keep its youth in the faith.

Then, in Him and of Him we eat the Bread of Life at the common table of Our Father, and grow in wisdom, age and grace personally and as a People before God and men.

In political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionIn political and social thought, no Christian has ever written a more profound defense of the democratic idea and its component parts, such as the dignity of the person, the sharp distinction between society and the state, the role of practical wisdom, the common good, the transcendent anchoring of human rights, transcendent judgment upon societies, and the interplay of goodness and evil in human individuals and institutionin human individuals and institutions.

It appears to me that the increase of uncertainty today is less a sign of maturity and wisdom, and more a negative effect from breathing a poisoned, polluted air we are sharing in common with the rest of the world, to our own detriment.

My prayer is that we begin to move our hearts, our minds, our bodies in the direction of love, wisdom, and common sense.

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

Less common is the appreciation that Christ completes the movement of theological thought which is expressed in the body of Old Testament writing described as Wisdom Literature.

Here, Fr Cantalamessa explores the subject with wisdom, common sense, and a message of hope, and he is very much in tune with Pope Benedict.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life,....

For the reformers the Bible was a treasure trove of divine wisdom to be heard, read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested, as the Book of Common Prayer's collect for the second Sunday in Advent puts it, to the end that «we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou has given us in our Savior Jesus Christ.»

In general it is prudential wisdom, the expression of «that common sense and insight which is the basis of happiness and prosperity.»

Olympians Gary Hall Sr., Mike Troy, John Kinsella, Jim Montgomery, Don McKenzie, Charlie Hickcox and nine - time gold medalist Mark Spitz were among 200 IU alums who came back to Bloomington to dip into their common past — and in some cases, into the water — as they remembered Doc Counsilman, the man who used to sit on a bench at poolside, sipping coffee, reading mail and occasionally dispensing swimming wisdom through a portable amplifier.

The ins and outs of parenthood have certainly been transformed since Dr. Spock admonished parents in 1946 to use their common sense, and it is this kernel of wisdom that makes him still relevant today and the reason his book is still in print.

Dr. Laura Markham's compassion, wisdom, common sense, love and understanding radiates in each carefully chosen word, example and suggestion throughout this well - written, easy - to - read, delicious book on peaceful parenting.

@agc I thought, perhaps somewhat cynically, that somebody truly believing in the «wisdom, or virtues of the common people» is plain wrong.

But what is equally fascinating, if also unmistakably contradictory, about Alhaji Banda's rather caustic criticism of Akufo - Addo's level of «wisdom» and / or «intelligence,» is that it well appears that sometime in the past, Alhaji Banda recognized enough common sense, intelligence and wisdom in Nana Akufo - Addo to prompt him to solicit the legal advice and services of the man he clearly appears to have lately fallen out with.

Anna Martinez, the «stroller mom» on the subway who was slashed in the face by a homeless woman, offered common - sense wisdom when she learned her attacker had been arrested more than 60 times for drugs and prostitution.

«The common wisdom was that once an experience was consolidated in long - term memory, it was stable,» says Yadin Dudai, who heads the department of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Furthermore, this computation formally proves the common wisdom that the dealer in the game holds a substantial advantage.

For decades, common medical wisdom has been «the lower the better» in treating the approximately one in three people in this country who have high blood pressure.

«The common wisdom was that once an experience was consolidated in long - term memory, it was stable,» says neurobiologist Yadin Dudai of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Against common wisdom even the adult and aging brain can generate new neurons from a population of resident stem cells but it does so only in two privileged regions and on a minute scale.

From studying spiritual leaders and refugees, and from working with clients, I have observed a common thread, a means of approaching life in a way that results in wisdom.

Common wisdom (in other words, what you'll probably hear) dictates that when you eliminate «artery - clogging meat full of saturated fat and cholesterol,» you reduce your risk for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and pretty much every other disease on the -LSB-...]

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters)- Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.