But focusing on the known, instead of the unknowable, sounds like a good idea.
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Making each picture was like throwing a stone without knowing where it would land, how close to the unknowable and unreachable.
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Rest in the consolatory rhythms of hearth and home, marked out by meals and seasons, or break the pattern and take the unknowable risk?
He provides more detail in his contribution to the recent book edited by Herring, The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management.
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We need the flexibility as to how they are spent, so we can adapt to the unknowable circumstances that are unfolding in the weeks and months ahead.
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Do you sometimes wonder why economists are accorded such respect and influence given the fact that they claim knowledge over the unknowable, promote theories that are untestable, and make forecasts for which they are never held accountable?
But the more unknowable a risk is, the more it exaggerates the impact.
The alien and unknowable are the things that make Mulder tick, whereas Scully wants evidence.
When the future is unknowable, it makes more sense to think like entrepreneurs do.
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Perhaps the financial-advice industry survives because the idea that the future is unknowable is just unsatisfying.
Since the outbreak began the UN has tried to dodge accusations of responsibility, saying that the source of the disease is unknowable or unimportant.
The number is unknowable and not material.
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What they are doing there, and what the relationship between the men is, is unknowable, but this Eggleston photograph has the sense of narrative, of something going on, that many Frank pictures have.
The result is an image of the future that is potentially predictable to some degree, but effectively unknowable because of the lack of any common ground.
The Tories say the state of the public finances in the coming years in unknowable.
Whether Ahmadinejad believes that he can prompt the return of the Mahdi through the instigation of a regional war, perhaps one that might see the use of nuclear weapons, is unknowable, but this is not a prospect on which we should wait around for the answer.
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Even in my sleepless state, I sensed the private magic of the moment, and so I gripped my pinky behind my back until the sun finally cleared the Pioneers and flashed its unknowable face at me.
Whether this is a comment on the mania of collectors to possess a work of art regardless of the consequences or the fact that the thieves are unable to locate a buyer is unknowable--but it's usually one or the other.
The imminent arrival of an unknown and unknowable number of Romanians and Bulgarians who are all free to work here next year is pushing it up the political agenda.
This is shrewd because a big objection from incumbents has been that the effects of market opening are unknowable and could be disastrous.
But no matter how good the dish, Sedgwick remains powerfully unknowable.
Whether other initiatives will actually emerge is of course unknowable, but at least the possibility exists.
So that is in essence holding a gun to the head of the American people because make no mistake, the specific consequences of default may be unknowable or unpredictable, but we know they will be seriously negative and they will impact -- they will have an impact directly on the American people.
And the ramifications of Greek default on the European and US banking systems are largely unknowable.
She evokes the universe in which we carelessly frolic as an unknowable, shadowy place where invisible terrors are likely to pop up when we least expect them like grinning skeletons in a fairground tunnel-of-love.
They are stated as changes from what the economy would otherwise have done, but that is unknowable.
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The technical implication for the intertwined world of finance, of which the Treasury bond is a core architectural support, is unknowable.
When it comes to high-impact low-probability (HILP) events, impact is so big, in both emotional and actual terms, that it swamps our understanding of the actual risk, which is often very small or unknowable.
But the causes of his delusions are as irrelevant as they are unknowable.
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