Sentences with phrase «only white swans»

In November 2009 article titled Only White Swans on the Road to Revulsion James Montier makes the argument that that the housing bubble and the crisis following its collapse was not an unforeseen event but rather the result of over optimism and the illusion of control, two classic human behavioural mistakes.

Not exact matches

This could be proven by observing a non-white swan, although the only real value is that we proved that not all swans are white.

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However, Nina is only one of a handful of promising aspirants invited to audition for the bifurcated lead role as both the White and Black Swan.

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To prepare the ground, he covered the entire surface in multiple layers of a radiant lead white, which were then sanded down and painted again, only to be sanded anew, «until the surface became almost translucent» (M. Stevens and A. Swan, De Kooning: An American Master, New York, 2004, p. 562).

Looking at ten thousand white swans without a black one amongst them doesn't prove that black ones don't exist, only that they are rare, at least where you are looking for them.

This is the equivalent of inducting that «all swans are white» after having only ever seen one swan.