But by encouraging philanthropy, we encourage imagination and innovation in ways the political process, more likely to be constrained by conventional wisdom, will not.
These numbers are driven by conventional wisdom that views higher education as a surefire ticket to a successful career and greater lifetime earnings.
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But as I recall, with the Korea free trade agreement, that was deemed by conventional wisdom as an example of us not getting something done.
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First was an unwillingness to be snowed by conventional wisdom, technical jargon or the fairy tales of universal knowledge that abound when everything was still mostly talk and potential.
The point is that the conventional wisdom in Washington is usually dictated by politics, while the conventional wisdom elsewhere is driven by facts and data.
Goode said he was not swayed by the conventional wisdom that the Strip had been overbuilt.
As with any true entrepreneur, Jay-Z is also an iconoclast who knows the importance of not being confined by the conventional wisdom.
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There is also much closet support for the way Malaysia flouted conventional wisdom by imposing capital controls (including within the IMF, now that predictions of doom have proved unfounded).
So I think the conventional wisdom by all sides - people who are sympathetic to the United States or not - is that the West, if it intervenes, it will intervene only to tilt the balance momentarily on the side of one group or the other but not in a decisive way.
And by now it's conventional wisdom that when our smiling president transforms into Mr. Hyde he is merely channeling Saul Alinsky, deploying the tactics of community-organizing campaigns, the only operational world he knew before this.
Then there was a paper by Pierre Noel, which got a huge amount of attention in the new year by pointing out that the conventional wisdom on tackling European dependency on Russian gas was all wrong.
He seduces the mind by making error appealing, by deceiving with the lies of worldly conventional wisdom.
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One is it's so early that the process is driven by, kind of, elite media conventional wisdom rather than the voters.
Making me rethink this conventional wisdom was a recent essay by Y Combinator founder Paul Graham about how to find startup ideas.
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Independent in his thinking, he was driven by an imagination that broke from the confines of conventional wisdom.
The conventional wisdom, which was recently backed by a Harvard research, is that most venture-backed startups fail.
The conventional wisdom judged the efficiency of markets by the accuracy of individual prices rather than on their robustness in the event of shocks or their vulnerability when liquidity dries up.
In another example, General Motors went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the federal government because they bought into the conventional wisdom that Americans would always want big, gas-guzzling cars (among other outdated beliefs).
Occasionally, the Kauffman Index can thwart conventional wisdom and seemingly self-evident logic by virtue of its demographic breakdowns.
Some local citizens' groups, helped by a number of their elected representatives, have challenged the conventional wisdom that incineration is best.
Hyundai likes to think of itself as a company that challenges conventional wisdom, so it's not bothered by the fact that other carmakers gave up on similar plans decades ago.
The conventional wisdom is that Afghanistan needs to be led by a Pushtun with credibility among the southern tribes (Mr Karzai's Popolzai are linked to royalty) and, ideally, acceptable to Pakistan.
The conventional wisdom is that the Japanese have been stymied by something called the Galapagos Syndrome: like the strange animals and plants that Darwin encountered in the Galapagos Islands, Japanese cellphones have evolved separately.
Conventional wisdom says the Irish will be sufficiently cowed by the economic crisis to vote Yes to Lisbon in early October, allowing EU leaders to discuss the new jobs at a summit later that month.
Conventional wisdom would say that Spanx should have been created by one of the giants in the hosiery, lingerie or apparel industries.
So how is one to square this assessment with the conventional wisdom also to some extent borne out by polling data that the public is in an isolationist mood, convinced that we must concentrate resources and energy on domestic concerns rather than international ones and opposed to the use of military power overseas?
So how is one to square this assessment with the conventional wisdom -- also to some extent borne out by polling data -- that the public is in an isolationist mood, convinced that we must concentrate resources and energy on domestic concerns rather than international ones and opposed to the use of military power overseas?
The current conventional wisdom that central banks will reduce economic and financial instability by keeping inflation low and stable is flawed.
That's prosaic in comparison, and the first act is not quite as nimble as it might have been (there's a necessary framing device, but also a redundant romantic interlude concocted by screenwriter David Magee for reasons that have more to do with conventional Hollywood wisdom than the demands of this particular tale).
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