Sentences with phrase «almost common wisdom»

It has become almost common wisdom that the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was an avian strain introduced into the human population shortly before the pandemic erupted.

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The canonical books of Wisdom Literature portray certain characteristic features: Some common OT themes such as Promises to the Patriarchs, Exodus, Sinai, Covenant and the divine oracles etc. are almost absent.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

What I eventually noticed was that the common denominator almost everyone in the modern world suffers from is disconnection: from self, from other, from environment, from higher wisdom.

The MOI interview with MITIMCO team consists of many nuggets of wisdom like» The most common mistake we see is when an investor makes small compromises in the early days of the partnership in ways that limit future success» and «We've observed that almost all the very successful and established firms we work with turn away large amounts of capital — they even did so when they were small, by the way — because they understand the need to apply the same high bar to their choice of partners as they do their choice of investments».