Sentences with phrase «history teach us anything»

Science has not yet defined final causes yet, but if history teaches us anything, the rate at which scientific discovery has been increasing over the last several hundred years suggests that we may soon have those answers.

But if history teaches anything, it's this: necessary change doesn't happen just because a group of well - intentioned people say that it should.

If history taught us anything is that Wenger for sure does not listen to the fans.

However, if history teaches us anything, it is that the stranglehold that the constantly shifting «common sense», «middle ground», of the dominant ideology, has over the mass of people, is actually never permanent.

Clearly, the competition is ready, but if history teaches us anything, it's that the Golf will bring the heat.

If history teaches us anything, it's that arrogant «We own this market and can dictate terms» companies will have their lunch eaten while they're not looking.

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But if our history of profligacy has taught us anything, it's that Canada can't afford to be complacent about the country's more than $ 500 - billion debt.

If the speculative bubbles and crashes across market history have taught us anything (particularly the repeated episodes of recklessness we've observed over the past two decades), it's this: regardless of the level of valuation at any point in time, we have to allow for the potential for investors to adopt a psychological preference toward risk - seeking speculation, and no amount of reason will dissuade them even when that speculation has already made a collapse inevitable over a longer horizon.

If history has taught us anything, it is that markets are cyclical.

Yeah, well if history has taught us anything about the Pope.

If the history of Christianity has taught us anything it is its ability to assimilate culture, other religions and science into its dogmatic fold.

His own pet proof of «why there almost certainly is no God» (a proof in which he takes much evident pride) is one that a usually mild - spoken friend of mine (a friend who has devoted too much of his life to teaching undergraduates the basic rules of logic and the elementary language of philosophy) has described as «possibly the single most incompetent logical argument ever made for or against anything in the whole history of the human race.»

Christians put that proposition right up front, it is the most heavily advertised belief in history, and in the ears of someone disinclined to believe it, it sounds at least as silly as anything the Scientologists teach.

If history has taught us anything it is that our beliefs, even when they are based in our understanding of the Bible, are not always right.

If history has taught us anything through the brash talk of champions like Mohammed Ali, Floyd Money Mayweather and even the much hated Jose Mourinho, it is that beating your opponent psychology usually works to your advantage 90 % of the time.

Coaches would still have to properly evaluate talent, and if recent history has taught us anything, many of them have not honed that skill.

If history has taught us anything, we should realise that with Giroud, Wellbeck, Perez, Sanogo and Asano on the books, and Wenger's love of «Continuity» and «Stability» it's possible that we might not even get a proper striker at all.

You can sit on your couch and watch football instead of interacting with people in the flesh, and if the course of history has taught you anything, it's that we crave ever more elaborate methods to avoid interacting in meatspace.

If history has taught us anything it is to select the bits of it that we like the look of and disregard the rest.

If history has taught us anything, however, a more likely reality is a series of high profile snubs and rejections, generating a heightened level of desperation that culminates in an eleventh hour appeal to the loan system.

If there's anything history has taught us about a «healthy» British property market it's that house prices will increase quicker than average earnings, making this tipping point inevitable.

If history has taught anything, it is that you don't cut public expenditure during a period of sluggish growth.

It is easy to have a knee jerk reaction and side with the position that will be initially received with great favor, but if history has taught us anything, we need to look beyond the instant gratification and look at the lasting effects of the decisions we make and support.

If the history of science has taught us anything, it should be the shortsightedness of believing that what we see is all there is.

April 3, 2018 • If the history of thermodynamics can teach us anything, it is that modest entropy reversals have not taken us back in time at all.

If the history of the dating industry has anything to teach us, the exclusive club they covet shouldn't remain too firmly shut for long.

If the past 40 years of sci - fi movie history have taught us anything, it's that you should never mess with a Star Wars fanboy.

He ran a workshop on teaching AP U.S. History, and it was unlike anything I had seen before.

If you're still not sold on the potential value of teaching journalism to history students, Meacham says, «I see a direct connection between what I learned in journalism and what I'm doing now,» explaining that insofar as he has anything to say in his books, it's because journalism exposed him to politics and public life at an early age.

Don: If can be accused of promoting anything, it is the teaching of history (my major in college).

«If Facing History has taught me anything, it's that you can't just label an event as a tragedy and walk away; you have to confront it, strip away the complex layers of motives and causes in the hopes that you will become closer to understanding what lies at the core of humanity,» Afzal wrote in her essay «One Word at a Time.»

Does history teach people anything?

If history has taught us anything though, it's likely that we can now expect to see Jelly Bean remain the dominant Android platform through 2014 and beyond.

If history has taught us anything, it is that markets are cyclical.

If recent business history has taught us anything, it is that boards and management can be wonderfully creative.

It relates a history of European painting that is quite different from anything taught at schools and universities.

Even if you don't plan on buying anything, go for the demonstrations — they'll teach you more not only about contemporary art, but also the way that prints have been made throughout history.

When you teach at law school, as I have, you become familiar with a variety of reasons as to why students choose to study law — perhaps there's a history of lawyers in the family; or their parents want them to do something, anything professional; or they want to right wrongs, get that BMW, enter politics, point damning fingers at witnesses... Even with those students who wound up in law school with apparently only a shrug for a reason, some explanation eventually surfaced.

But if the company's history has taught us anything, it's that merely pumping cash into its coffers won't be enough to keep the platform from going under.

If history has taught us anything, its that a Google phone launch never goes quite as smooth as one might hope.

If Bitcoin's history has taught us anything, it's that if you keep your money on an exchange, you don't actually own that money — the exchange does.

And, if history has taught us anything, it is that your job is anything but