Sentences with phrase «on folk wisdom»

I've used a spark tester at night set to a 30kv gap which produced a weak thin looking orange spark, when based on folk wisdom I should be getting a thick bluish / white spark.

I would look into evidence - based sources on aromatherapy, rather than ones that are just a regurgitation or based on folk wisdom.

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As companies like Shopify scale, managers inevitably lose that immediate knowledge of what's going on every day, and so the folks at Shopify unleashed the wisdom of its crowd.

Folk wisdom has it that such converts come to the priest on Sunday and to the traditional African religious leader on Monday.

There are elements of good sense in folk wisdom and popular religion, and what health remains in the body politic depends on this.

In general, folk - theories are unsystematic accumulations of conventional wisdom on a particular topic; they may embody some truth but are as likely to embody much falsehood.

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.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

The folk wisdom that gets expressed from time to time by various actors thus serves as a kind of implicit Greek chorus commenting on the action.

The enactment, however, must still at some point include a «speech act» pointing out the meaning of the action, and here once more Shakespeare is able to exploit the resources of folk wisdom, to turn it into music, and to place it in the mouth of one of his characters, who at that moment becomes the chorus commenting on the meaning of the play.

In the book David and I argue that the supposed negative relationship between income inequality and democratization was seductive to many scholars, since it confirmed the folk wisdom of generations of scholars on the left and right.

In challenging the conventional wisdom in being able to implement the wide ranging plan, Carrion said, «we hacked away at the conventional notions, the fears, and we did it through having conversations with folks on the ground.»

American folk wisdom recognized that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and thin, with «pinched» faces.2

The show must go on folks until we replace these kinds of officials and public servants with people possessing integrity and wisdom.

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However, as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) pointed out in a speech delivered on November 23, 1900, popular folk wisdom says that every time a school is closed, a jail must be built.

All of my month ahead folks, any sound wisdom to offer on saving while living paycheck to paycheck?

Next to my desk, I hung a scrap of paper on which I wrote this quote from the life - changing book Coercion & its Fallout by Dr. Murray Sidman: «An overworked and incorrect bit of folk wisdom pronounces the carrot to be of no avail unless backed up by the stick.

Folk wisdom doesn't come with a text book on parasitology.