#conventional wisdom

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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.


Nick Clooney


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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.


John Kenneth Galbraith


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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.


Anna Quindlen


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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.


Peter Jennings


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Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.


Paul Ryan


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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.


Adam Schiff


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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.


Chris Robinson


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Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.


Steve Albini


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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.


Ed Miliband


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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.


Tom Peters


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