One of the most talked-about art pieces for the year was "The Folly" by Dave Keane and The Folly Builders.
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Asking the Internet to name the thing would have been worthy of derision as folly, but the alphabetical restriction elevates this folly to the sublime — the quixotic.
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To others — especially to economists — this was folly.
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Ryan's own professional setbacks reveal the folly of that hope.
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Click here to learn more about the Folly Tree Arboretum.
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Crawl, don't walk, to Folly Farm's new sloth retirement home.
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ZEE is a monument to Angola's gigantism, corruption and folly.
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"The OCC's reckless folly should be stopped," the complaint says.
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Satire thrives where the usual checks on human folly fail.
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But combining responsibility with youthful folly doesn't always end gracefully.
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Prolonging this folly any longer does not serve US interests.
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It is folly for any U.S. leader to think otherwise.
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Under ordinary conditions, attempting such an observation would be folly.
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To go through the entire feature list would be folly.
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A radical reversal of this bipartisan policy is folly. pic.twitter.
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The first, "Folly," is the story of a love affair.
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Whelan's folly shows how not to offer such an explanation.
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How Communist cruelty and Western folly built an underpopulation bomb.
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Any list of safe or unsafe safe apps is folly.
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Conservatives have trumpeted the deficit as proof of progressive folly.
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Next in our tower of folly is the institutional level.
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And, among other things, that shows the folly of forecasting.
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"All this secessionist process is a folly," Mr. Rajoy said.
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It revealed the folly of the president's approach to politics.
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But Player B soon sees the folly in this strategy profile.
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Now Mother Nature is showing us the folly of our ways.
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Will Hirsch's photographs eventually be a time capsule of industrial folly?
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And it's not just the folly of war they're worried about.
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The numbers and the history show the folly of that approach.
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There are many similar examples of his record of postseason folly.
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Therefore, breaking up large banks would allow more folly, not less.
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And apparently, that census worker wasn't about to record their folly.
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The folly of this has become apparent to their central bankers.
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That is pure folly and will lead us all to ruin.
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Take her out to a local fort or a Victorian folly.
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A century of experience has taught us the folly of it.
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Barbara Tuchman published her masterpiece, "The March of Folly," in 1984.
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The war crops up here and there in the "Folly" section.
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But it's folly to rely on hope that is demonstrably false.
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Those who climbed "The Folly" were rewarded with an impressive view.
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Richards, and their desperation, and the folly of my youthful, dumb
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To try to describe that scene is to recognize its folly.
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A virus exposes the folly of what the president's base believes.
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The first section — "Folly" — is the story of a love affair.
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I worry about human folly and human greed and human error.
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It's full of the folly and stupidity and arrogance of youth.
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It was also a moral outrage that concealed a political folly.
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Or a bulbous glass and steel Victorian folly around the corner?
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Can it not see the outdated folly of its amateur model?
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About New York Sometimes, a car crash is one person's folly.
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None of this is accident or folly, not caprice nor diary.
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Looking for personal clues in somebody's acting is probably a folly.
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Human folly is not required for the scooters to cause problems.
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Joe Cunningham (D-South Carolina) -- Republican Folly Beach Mayor Tim GoodwinRep.
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Everyone believes — but pointedly won't agree — that Logan's determination to buy rival media corporation PGM (a vague combination of MSNBC and the New York Times) is an ego-driven folly, like the kind of folly the world "folly" was invented for, but absolutely no one who works at Waystar-Royco will stand behind that opinion for more than 15 seconds.
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The scene brought to mind the 1984 book The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman, who concludes that a folly is often the result of people's "wooden-headedness" or an unwillingness to listen to facts.
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It has been convenient hitching the one economy onto the other, but by now the folly of the underlying premise — that the other side can be trusted — is surely exposed for the folly it always was.
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Regarding the limpness of 2017's explicit protest music, I agree; we deserve better than Father John Misty acting snotty about human folly, as if he didn't suffer from the human folly of singing like James Taylor.
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This would surely have alerted you to the perils of your folly!
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Supporting immigrants is not folly, but directly in many of our interests.
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Sansa seems to assume it's just the folly of her younger sister.
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Flub one or more, and you risk becoming a footnote of folly.
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Far from being a fair-weather folly, the AIIB appears well-timed.
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FREEHOLD "Talley's Folly," by Lanford Wilson, presented by Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center.
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To see the folly in that conclusion, consider again the Mankiw family.
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Macron's — and Europe's — challenge in blocking Iran folly has just grown tougher.
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Woods's alignment doesn't have any of West's folly, turmoil or historical blasphemy.
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And obviously, I'm 100 percent right and arguing with me is folly.
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The first, "Folly," centers on the asymmetrical romance between Alice and Ezra.
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But others were convinced it was folly to brave the Polish winter.
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"Wrecked by Liquor and Folly," according to The New York Herald, 133.
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Also: The folly of environmental deregulation; the poor and the cashless society.
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This is why it is a sheer folly to count Bloomberg out.
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A folly driven by a lack of understanding concerning how valuation works.
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The oil industry is seeing the folly of anti-environment policies too.
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The pope denounced the "homicidal folly and senseless hatred," said the Rev.
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But it also almost reminds me of another aspect of Oscars folly.
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At the least, the layoffs suggest the tragic folly of Mr. Peretti's thinking.
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First, forsaking any sort of tech that makes your life easier is folly.
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Should substance trump style, or is it folly to assume they're mutually exclusive?
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Especially with Brexit looming, running down a successful commercial cluster looks like folly.
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"It will be folly to think that this won't happen again," Poland said.
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Matt Sweeney: A key component to Chavez is an awareness of man-folly.
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Do you think the Folly Cove operation helped pave the way for legalization?
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FREEHOLD "Talley's Folly," by Lanford Wilson, presented by the Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center.
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To doves, Obama's words meant that he saw the folly of all wars.
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First, there is the oddity of the doctor's isolation in the garden folly.
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But from the Rojas porch, it's just a harmless folly on the horizon.
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He showed folly and he showed wisdom, cowardice and courage, aloofness and kindness.
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That is the Pruitt-Trump Doctrine — soon to be known as "Trump's Folly."
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Is Johnson prepared to lay out why he actually believes in this folly?
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To try to ascribe to him a traditional political motive is complete folly.
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We're alone and we'll have to bear the cost of Donald Trump's folly.
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I worry an asteroid is going to smite the Earth for our folly.
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We're alone and will have to bear the cost of Donald Trump's folly.
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They absorb everything — pain, injustice, insult, folly — and give back decency and kindness.
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Against this background, it is folly to rule out service by transgender individuals.
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How could they be sure this was an opportunity, and not a folly?
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At the least, the layoffs suggest the tragic folly of Mr. Peretti's thinking.
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At first, everything is great, and it's all flower crowns, sunshine, and springtime folly.
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Then, through an act of folly, you got involved in the Helping Hambantota scandal.
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" Folly: "Cap of the two shades, like an inverted cornucopia; a fool's bauble, viz.
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If it took a crisis to expose the folly—well, better late than never.
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All this shows the folly of the Trump administration's attempts to upend immigration policy.
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Without proof of purchase, these viral auctions reach a new level of insipid folly.
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One need only look southward, to Gaza, to realize the folly of that plan.
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The traumatic folly of the Bar-Lev line was Israel's version of the Maginot.
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The remaining element in the deal is folly, and that's hard to pin down.
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Given America's entanglement with China, an all-out trade war would be sheer folly.
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But waiting for the next financial crisis to strike would be the greater folly.
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It will become a symbol of the cynicism, stupidity, and folly of our age.
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It would be a mistake, though, to dismiss Trump's remarks as a personal folly.
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But the 2016 election campaign showed the folly of this see-no-evil approach.
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That target seemed like folly at the time, but it was a necessary metric.
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But neither that, nor an end to America's march of folly, will happen soon.
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It's a world rife with misunderstanding, where mixed signals lead to folly and crime.
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Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collections Field Folly Snow and O'Nights.
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The latter you can confront with violence, but there is no defense against folly.
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He borrows from different cultures so freely that it is folly to categorize him.
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The style became known as "Fowler's folly," after the misguided man who promoted them.
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Delaney made a powerful analogy about the folly of single payer health care proposals.
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Folly Beach, South Carolina (CNN)As a Marine serving in the Iraq War, Sgt.
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To turn our back on that achievement now would be the height of folly.
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Cryptocurrencies evade such folly through two unique features: being decentralised and in finite supply.
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No one is going to tear up this agreement—it would be beyond folly.
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"The history of bread is full of human folly, which is great," he said.
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"Insanity and folly": experts on Trump's proposal to build tens of thousands of nukes
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The project would later be dismissed as a folly and a waste of effort.
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Dewey was forced to concede Lippmann's basic point about the folly of public opinion.
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They decked the Holland with boughs of holly Then people called their décor folly.
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Alternatively, this folly could wind up wreaking global havoc well beyond the economic sphere.
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That would not only be a dereliction of duty, it would also be folly.
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And what Indian parent would permit his expensively educated child to commit such folly?
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Almost every essay features awe-inspiring intellectual achievement and incomprehensible human suffering or folly.
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It's folly for Canadian politicians to stick their fingers in their ears and hum.
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At the festival, the line between genius and folly is often up for debate.
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Other business people realize the economic folly of pulling out of the Paris accord.
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I think it's folly to wonder about these matters here, now, at your age.
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It may have seemed like a folly, but it was actually a technical steppingstone.
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Does the Crucifixion eclipse represent a premonition of the "folly" mentioned in the letter?
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In "The March of Folly," Stormy Daniels's legs, donning fishnet stockings, dangle from Trump Tower.
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But with this Republican, and at this precise moment, this approach seems like dangerous folly.
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Fred Vinson (D-Ky.) asked the insurance actuary, according to Jim Powell's book, FDR's Folly.
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But the engineers and product managers back at home in California said it was folly.
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The Folly Boat was a message board of sorts for the South Carolina beach town.
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Apple's folly is in not recognizing just how passionate and committed its professional audience is.
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Now, the late-night host is finally apologizing for the Twitter-famous folly — sort of.
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" Popular advice columnist Dorothy Dix warned in 1939 that going steady was an "insane folly.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian, declared that folly is more difficult to confront than malice.
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It would be folly to leave national priorities only to politicians striving toward Election Day.
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In 2013, he moved to Folly Beach, South Carolina, where he started giving surf lessons.
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As both a matter of national policy and operational capability, such a position is folly.
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By the time the corps realized its folly, it was too late to alter course.
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The Democrats' confidence is based on the perceived folly of Republicans' nominating Donald J. Trump.
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We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Asmara is itself a giant monument to colonial folly.
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It became a meme, and a cautionary tale, about the folly of cable news punditry.
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For years, "Game of Thrones" has been a story of the folly of seeking power.
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It always seems like folly to forecast the impending demise of the Brady-Belichick Patriots.
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"It's a folly, it's a fun thing, but it's not the way we get around."
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His opponents called it "Clinton's Folly" and "Clinton's Ditch," and predicted all manner of doom.
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This is, in part, the folly of a top-down approach to responding to pandemics.
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The garden's map called it "The Ruin," a folly, built to resemble an abandoned home.
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Still, it's folly to assume that the Pakistani sanctuaries alone account for the Taliban's strength.
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"Brexit" and Trump exposed the folly of pollsters; Leicester City defied the naysaying of pundits.
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Cutting three-quarters of the 90,000 federal regulations already on the books is sheer folly.
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On the contrary, Streep is right there, solidly invested in the folly of Florence's dreams.
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If anything, the past decade has proven the folly of attempting to predict the future.
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It's folly to try to reduce any moment in politics down to a single cause.
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Two hundred years on, Austen's sniping observations of human vanity and folly still hit the mark.
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Which other country has a capital littered with monuments to its own past crimes and folly?
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But I have to confess my folly in enthusiastically endorsing the Technics T700 during January's CES.
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She knows that it might all be folly, that she might be playing someone else's game.
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But for Syvitski, there's a bright side to watching the Earth sink because of human folly.
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The wasteland is a consequence of the great folly of mankind, but it is not dead.
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The department realized its folly and has since pulled the ads, but the Internet is forever.
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In a coming era of great-power rivalry, it would be folly to give this up.
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As if the concept of "privacy" weren't folly enough in this digital age, meet Ingrid Thorburn.
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"It was a folly, a symbol of pomp and excess," Minton told Motherboard over the phone.
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I got engaged on Folly Beach in Charleston, so that's definitely one of my favorites too.
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But these are not children's fables: Alomar often centers greed, arrogance, cruelty, and above all, folly.
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But surely the folly of "excessive attachment" applies not only to physical things but to rules.
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That's the seduction of Twitter, and the folly of those who need to win Twitter arguments.
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He is the author of The Terrible 10: A Century of Economic Folly (Independent Institute, 2013).
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It's likely that they were drawn to the simultaneous romanticism, challenge, and folly of doing so.
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It would be folly to equate "The Intervention" with "The Big Chill," but there are parallels.
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But Birkins aren't just fashion statements or folly — these bags only appreciate in value with time.
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To others, they symbolized the insanity of war and the folly of defenses against nuclear attack.
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The folly reflects an all-too-common reliance on arbitrary boundaries for defining public health issues.
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"The project would later be dismissed as a folly and a waste of effort," he writes.
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Claiming "Fat is Folly," La Parle Obesity Soap claimed to reduce fat "without dieting or gymnastics".
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And the credit, or blame, for the return of Coca-Cola's greatest folly goes to Netflix.
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That would be very much to China's liking, as well as an act of dangerous folly.
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We learn their names, and see evidence of tenderness and folly as well as steely heartlessness.
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Saunders has looked into my soul and shown me the folly of voting for Donald Trump.
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President Obama also recognized the folly of imposing uncompetitively high corporate tax rates on U.S. businesses.
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I hope many of you reading this can find that same pleasure in Hooper's godless folly.
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"It's folly," I said, all the while mesmerized and hoping my words were having no effect.
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To criticize Israel is imperative; to disavow it, for a Jew, a form of ahistorical folly.
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And yet, bearing unflinching witness to the horrific consequences of historic folly should always be welcome.
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The folly of believing that any home is permanent, that any space can be owned, is evident.
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Going too far with their complaints has been the folly that exposes their concerns as fever dreams.
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At the end of the story, he shuts his eyes to grieve for the folly of man.
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But equally huge problems for ethereum, hacking-wise, are human greed and folly rather than buggy code.
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Zone was created during a residency at an agriculture-meets-art-project called the Folly Tree Arboretum.
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Partisanship explains some of this gigantic folly, as does widespread distrust of the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
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Maybe it's because all love is essentially distracting folly which only ever ends in heartbreak or death.
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Some spoke of it in cautionary terms, as a military folly to be avoided at all costs.
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Repeating their folly and expecting a different outcome, the generals have kept sending waves of armed "volunteers".
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I walked in thinking it a folly, and walked out thinking it might just be a revolution.
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Plus, the notion that a two-year delay would be an action-forcing mechanism is sheer folly.
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But it's a folly to imagine that the royal family is now the vanguard of social progress.
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And their united front against Bolton, who symbolized the arrogance and folly of Iraq, prevented his confirmation.
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In a country prone to protectionist folly, Brazil's market-minded response to the bean shortage is refreshing.
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In King Lear, recall, there is reason in the king's madness, and wisdom in the fool's folly.
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The folly of this proposal is highlighted by a troubling study that came out earlier this week.
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Senator Ted Kennedy and Democratic Congressman George Miller of California, both noted liberals, proudly supported Bush's folly.
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Their only link to Islam is the pretexts they use to justify their crimes and their folly.
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Chawla obviously wants to show the folly of greed, but with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
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The message, which has been retweeted more than 23,000 times, was spread around for its apparent folly.
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This time, she made clear, the asteroid is us — and we will pay heavily for our folly.
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Yet I believe that the Democrats should vote to fund Trump's Folly, and the sooner the better.
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It's what people are supposed to feel in the commission, recollection or exposure of sin and folly.
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My parents believed in me, but they certainly weren't going to subsidize what they considered my folly.
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" But too many hitters don't change their approach at all, a folly against pitchers "with good [expletive].
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Slumped in a chair, she conjures up the chaos and folly of desert warfare with impish bitterness.
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It's a mess, a folly covered in mirrored tiles, but somehow it's a beautiful and humane one.
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The Steelers won by 29 points that night, but there is folly in perceiving past as prologue.
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For me, any other positives of the Obama presidency have been overshadowed by the folly of Obamacare.
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The guy who, though he surely couldn't have stopped Bush's folly, certainly could have warned about it.
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Assemble went on to discuss Folly for a Flyover, another intervention involving unused physical space in London.
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Even when announcing his resignation live on French radio, the former ecological activist branded nuclear a "useless folly".
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Maybe it was Arnold's own folly that caused Dolores's very first meltdown, laying the foundation for current events.
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France for a century and a quarter have been due to the folly of her people in splitting
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But there was a lot of foibles and folly and messiness and darkness and all these other things.
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At the very least, it showcased the folly of trusting a media company to provide its own metrics.
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However, instead of realizing the folly of his ways, Giuliani insisted that the fault lie not with him.
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz blamed North Korea's test on the "folly" of failed policies by Obama and Clinton.
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And it's William, not Logan, who eventually convinces James that his son's folly is in fact a windfall.
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The sad thing about the current streetcar folly is that this technology was once vital to American cities.
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It's folly to think we will see an Australia-style gun ban and nationwide buy-back of guns.
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Leaving the world's biggest economic area, the market for almost half Britain's exports, may sound like business folly.
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It is folly to believe that a "responsible" nuclear North Korea would quietly coexist with the United States.
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It's hard to begrudge anyone their emotional wellbeing, but Hagerman's escapist lark illustrates the larger folly of retreatism.
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The idea was a mix of folly and insanity—as is obvious now and should've been obvious then.
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Then there's the folly of trying to time markets, a practice that smart investors like Warren Buffett eschew.
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In part, Pushkin's tale was meant to poke fun at the folly of kings, a perennial Russian subject.
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Will the U.S. business community challenge the economic folly of presidential interventionism despite the risk of tweet attacks?
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It's folly to assume that increases in computer power are the same as increases in sophistication, he explained.
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One biographical account, "Hedy's Folly," describes Ms. Lamarr's years of learning about weapons and tinkering with other inventions.
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To Tuchman, folly begins with the most fundamental of things: an outsize and self-destructive will to power.
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It's folly to wonder if Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz or John Kasich can win the nomination outright.
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It was heavily criticized at the time -- and has gone down as "Seward's Folly" in the history books.
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Doing so would be the height of folly and would deal a significant blow to US national security.
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This time they got lucky, largely because Russia suffered a perfect storm of ill fortune and colossal folly.
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Fast-forward to April 1865, and the ruins of this once beautiful city stood as testimony to folly.
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People like Senator Lindsey Graham understand that what the U.S. is now doing isn't simply foreign policy folly.
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Mr. Taylor complained to Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, that it was "folly" to withhold military aid.
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In its third folly, the tax bill will make the already complicated American tax code even more complex.
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Short of that, a business-friendly DOJ has at least seen the folly of outsourcing its watchdog role.
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And finally, Market Folly writes in about the relationship with Todd and Ted, the investment gurus in house.
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Speaking of symbolism, the fact that President Trump has been a fulsome supporter of this folly is apt.
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Cease this folly, and America can begin to take responsibility in the world and reclaim its civic peace.
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But the United States is under no obligation to underwrite the folly of one side or the other.
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BREAKFAST BROWSE Young rapper reportedly hospitalized for eating too many hot Cheetos Ah, the spicy folly of youth.
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"To say that [Mueller] is not going to bring more charges, I think, would be folly," Gagliano said.
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Icahn calls the deal a "folly" and that it carries a "ridiculous" price tag, and adds that Amazon.
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It would be folly to predict a viable de Blasio candidacy based on just one good debate performance.
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It was a scene almost designed to show the folly of the N.F.L.'s first-down measurement system.
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But if history teaches anything, it teaches that simpleminded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
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But while catching up the characters in their folly, Stillman makes a larger point that it's really society's fault.
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" Taylor corroborated those statements and offered his own assessment of the danger of jeopardizing Ukraine relations, calling it "folly.
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On some level, there's a comic level of folly to some of those things that are going on here.
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His folly is just the latest example of football's most absurd spectacles being further twisted by social media drama.
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Mr Trump has mocked the folly of toppling dictators in Iraq or Libya (though he once backed both interventions).
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Then, in 1894, with no command in view, Conrad abandoned the sea and published his first novel, "Almayer's Folly".
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Ken's Folly I've loved Ken all season, I'm starting to wonder if he exists in the infamous Handsome Bubble.
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During the Civil War, Folly Island served as a key staging area for Union troops attacking nearby Fort Morris.
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Last week, he said calling an election before Britain had left the EU would be "the height of folly".
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Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.
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Folly, though, would be thinking it's possible to render real black athletes this faithfully, without importing any further context.
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And many Labour supporters object to the idea of rescuing Mr Cameron from his folly in calling the referendum.
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If the Times report is accurate, then the most startling fact is the sheer folly of the interested parties.
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From the perspective of conservatives, the very notion and idea of utopian bliss as advocated by progressives is folly.
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Many economists, including at the Federal Reserve, believe the administration's forecast for 3.2 percent growth this year is folly.
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"#B_Team sold @realDonaldTrump on the folly that killing #JCPOA thru #EconomicTerrorism can get him a better deal," Zarif tweeted.
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Now, whether "The Changing Light at Sandover" is an "effective" poem or an extravagant folly is open for debate.
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"Wiener-Dog" is held together by its canine title character, whose animal dignity provides silent commentary on human folly.
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Devouring precious resources on a plebiscite while the government is literally in bankruptcy court is the height of folly.
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It takes the tragic death of two of their children for them to realize the folly of their war.
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Do the Japanese have an expression similar to the British one, noting the folly of bringing coals to Newcastle?
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The United States Senate, convinced that the agreement was folly in a dangerous world, refused to ratify the pact.
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In what I can now recognize as umami-induced folly, we allow ourselves to believe this will be easy.
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Stonecipher seems to be asking in this paragraph, what is the relationship between experience and folly, familiarity and escape?
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The folly of paying equal pay for equal work is evident in the rapidly depopulating areas of East Germany.
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No one person can make all things better, and shame on those of us who fell for such folly.
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It has helped to reorder economics by exposing the folly of economists' belief in an unconsciously rational human mind.
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He keeps an ironic distance from his material, which can be interpreted as a blanket forgiveness for human folly.
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And like all workplace novels, The Factory underscores the folly of how so many of us spend our days.
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"It's folly to take equity stakes," says Joshua Eisenman, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Therefore, any negotiation is folly because enemies will never compromise on their ultimate agenda of weakening America and its allies.
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"I started looking into green roofs, and realized what they were meant to do was fix our folly," he says.
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"The OCC's reckless folly should be stopped," Vullo said in her complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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According to the WSJ, it's not entirely clear how serious the president is about going through with Seward's Folly 2.0.
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Hurricane Matthew had made landfall a day earlier near McClellanville, a fishing village about 50 miles north of Folly Beach.
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Thaksin called the charter a "folly", saying it would perpetuate the junta's power and make it impossible to govern Thailand.
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This is even true of The Atlantic's David Frum, usually the most clear-eyed conservative critic of right-wing folly.
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I am consumed with self-hatred and try to push my past online folly into the back of my mind.
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The folly of ignoring the voices and warnings of the entrepreneurial or small business community is painfully evident these days.
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In most contexts, this would be a fairly insignificant snafu, but in this case it underscores a larger epistemic folly.
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And the folly of May's desire for both a hard Brexit and open border won't stand up to close scrutiny.
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That is not the current situation and until that day arrives, pushing Israel to restart the peace process is folly.
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It is folly to pretend that we can isolate ourselves from new competition – and new markets – that globalization has unleashed.
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The scheme was the fruit of human folly, principally and most notably that of the British prime minister, Anthony Eden.
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Now, this is storytelling — a narrative that evokes both the power of the disease and the power of human folly.
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"No Flies, No Folly," the opening story of Weil's brilliant new collection, reads like a microcosm for the book itself.
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When one of the hostages joins the shooter's side, hashtagging the slaughter #GoodFriday, it's a step too far into folly.
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But I do think it's folly — both substantively and politically — to pretend that more immigration is always better than less.
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But its laughs tend to come from the same source as the film's: mainly, the vampires' tendency toward human folly.
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Then she begins to fall hard for Wali (Jean-Christophe Folly), a Senegalese chef who happens to be a man.
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In so doing, he shows the folly of "boy food" and scores an implicit point: Murder may not be interesting.
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This was his chance to demonstrate that his move to Paris had been more than folly, that change was coming.
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Near the base of the terrace is a small garden shed styled like a folly with a window and tower.
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Critic's Notebook Ilya Khrzhanovsky's films "Degeneratsia" and "Natasha" are part of an undertaking whose eccentricity and grandeur border on folly.
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This story by Shay Maunz is a sharp, quirky look at colonial folly and local entrepreneurialism in pre-independence Vietnam.
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A brief survey of the history of the Affordable Care Act shows the folly of poor financing versus real reform.
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Democrats, here and in Washington, say it is folly to engage him on his preferred terrain of insults and bombast.
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But I think it's folly to think you know, A, what the market's going to do; and, B, especially, why.
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The press called the venture "LaGuardia's folly," and the attribution stuck even as popular sentiment about it warmed—or didn't.
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All of which underscores the folly of allowing the House of Representatives to bring this lawsuit in the first place.
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In an era of raucous division, it is somehow reassuring to know that America has come through previous cycles of folly.
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He could call out the folly of the war in Vietnam, and there was nothing the media could do about it.
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After all, to understand the folly of weaponizing food policies, just ask someone in Gaza what they are eating and why.
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Each succeeded solely because of dedicated advocates and acolytes who fought to prove the merit of what others said was folly.
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The very first game of the 2016 post-season was the most vivid demonstration imaginable of the folly of this approach.
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To predict the outcome of this churning would be folly, especially in times of such flux and fragmentation in European politics.
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To read a candidate's rhetoric into policies he adopts once in office is "folly" and "strewn with danger", Mr Kozinski warned.
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So, when you think about it, does "Hangmen," which slyly addresses the folly of leaps to judgment that end in death.
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This is surely the humans' greatest folly, their inability to look past the droids' occasional limitations to treat them with dignity.
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This marketing campaign not only does a disservice to the Cadburys but also highlights the folly in airbrushing faith from Easter.
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Though he won't hire H-1B workers, Hamilton says it's folly to think the visas can be done away with altogether.
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He is regularly quoted for his investor-first views centered on the idea that attempting to beat the market is folly.
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If we deeply see the folly of holding on, we can be much more in harmony with the flow of change.
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Conclusion I've previously written about the folly of relying on generalizations too much, but there are definitely some discernible patterns here.
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Every member of the Freedom Caucus must know that voting for the AHCA because of its anti-abortion language is folly.
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For all that, Bacevich is right that the United States' reflexive use of armed intervention in the Middle East is folly.
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The old Carwin versus Lesnar folly, and one which Alvarez did fall victim to in his UFC debut against Donald Cerrone.
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If anything, there has never been a better time to satirize the hubris and folly that pervades the world of tech.
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And some of their supporters are sure that, one day, we will see the folly of all race-conscious admissions policies.
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But it would still be a folly, a case study in ideology's exacting costs, for the Democrats to take the chance.
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His piece about London was really about his view of Brexit's utter folly, explored amid his consumption of fish 'n' chips.
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For example, the United States Army Corps of Engineers completed a $30 million beach project in Folly Beach, S.C., in 2014.
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L) in 220, its new 350 million-pound ($518 million) headquarters was dubbed "Fred's Folly" after disgraced former CEO Fred Goodwin.
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Senator J. William Fulbright, of Arkansas, had previously concluded that escalation was folly, and had privately tried to change Johnson's mind.
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Taking place largely in a grim and hulking Dublin tenement, it offers no illusions of heroism, and plenty of human folly.
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Time and again I'd choose the heroic, idealistic gesture… and watch as yet another ally paid the price for my folly.
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But is all the romance (and artistic inspiration) that's in the air for real, or is it just a passing folly?
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On August 8, Taylor contacted Pompeo via a "first-person cable" and told him of the "folly" in holding up aid.
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There is something notable, though, about "The March of Folly," a collection of sketches about mature countries getting things woefully wrong.
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Influential Saudi-controlled accounts on Twitter expressed their support for Sudan's military leaders and warned against the "folly" of popular uprising.
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If we cannot rediscover humane sophistication — a learned and elegant folly — we will lack the fine analytical blade of deep understanding.
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Now, read the article, "The Courage and Folly of a War That Left Indelible Scars," and answer the following questions: 1.
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She is still putting together the new series, which will have seven episodes, so she doesn't yet have a favorite folly.
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The force of Irma's waves, even some 200 miles from the eyewall, caused significant erosion of Folly Beach in South Carolina.
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" Later in life, Peters repented and claimed that "Peters the Parson is dead — and my crazy years of folly are over.
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They're instruments of a political agenda and it would be real folly to suggest that there is any kind of ambiguity.
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In a statement, Lombardi said the Pope was shaken and saddened by the "homicidal folly and senseless hatred" of the attack.
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It's folly to replace a world order too dependent on Middle East oil with one that's too dependent on Chinese technology.
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In a draft seen by the paper, Icahn calls the deal a "folly" and that it carries a "ridiculous" price tag.
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It became gaming's very own Heaven's Gate or Waterworld, a nonsensical folly that makes you question how it ever got made.
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The Trump phenomenon, which has onlookers in Europe and elsewhere agog at the latest American folly, isn't really exceptional at all.
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Michelle Goldberg argues that escalation is proof that the Iran deal's defenders were right about the folly of reneging on it.
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The left's knee-jerk reaction became a lesson about the folly of attaching political narratives to a senseless act of bloodshed.
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" When Trump talked of ripping up the Obama administration's Iran deal, Brennan said the move would be "the height of folly.
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Earlier reforms in the region demonstrated the benefits of capitalism to the rest of China and exposed the folly of central planning.
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The book traces major acts of folly throughout history, starting with the Trojans' decision to move the Greek horse within city walls.
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But it would be folly to ignore the help that machine learning can offer to those seeking empirical answers to literary questions.
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At the same time, it would probably be folly to get short stocks or long volatility in anticipation of such a drop.
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The folly of this approach is that it promulgates a policy unmoored from a sense of history and post–Cold War geopolitics.
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It's not clear what condition the boat is in or whether it will be returned to its original location in Folly Beach.
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"If a fool will persist in their folly, he will be wise, right?" she said, smiling, because she knew she already was.
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In sum, few administrations have had the honor and pleasure of setting such a record of folly over a two-day period.
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Yesterday should have been folly for Clinton as it reinforced her dreadful complex association with accuracy in her estimation of the truth.
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This year might be the year that British Prime Minister David Cameron learns the folly of his having given hostages to fortune.
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Others worry that any new construction on the waterfront is a folly, considering how floodwaters rushed across Emmons Avenue during Hurricane Sandy.
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Later, he designed the gardens along the walkway to the property's dacha — a folly inspired by Saint Laurent's first trip to Russia.
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"It would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result," he said.
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Particularly impressive are his gobsmackingly libertine, hyper-intense drawings of human genitalia that he rendered as if a prurient Neoclassical architectural folly.
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The first, for Republicans, is hope is not a strategy, and basing your election success on what prosecutors may do is folly.
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Gretchen was the one who had the diplomacy to get them to see their folly without incurring their wrathful boredom against me.
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Still others in the camp of nationalist reaction have taken to insisting the earth's wrath is God's punishment instead of humanity's folly.
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"The irresponsibility and folly of Trump's decision today to abrogate the Iran Deal is hard to overstate," Reif told me via email.
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Alongside the bans, there's been a surge of public awareness of the persistence of plastic waste and the folly of recycling it.
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Likewise, financial regulation is not just about preventing financial institutions from taking excessive risks or protecting small investors from their own folly.
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So every model has limits — but it's folly to blame any or all of them for the pathologies they aspire to tame.
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It went against the way they were all trying to live: stepping lightly on this earth, skirting the folly of human certainty.
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Sculptor Jean (Hans) Arp later recalled a futile sense that the Cabaret might "save mankind from the furious folly of these times".
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It would be folly to suggest that even as Saban is 68, the loss to Auburn portends the end of a dynasty.
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Add to this fiscal folly the rollback of environmental regulations, even as we are facing a climate crisis of enormous economic consequence.
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The first course, labeled on the menu as "down the rabbit hole," sets the tone for the extravagance and folly to come.
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Indeed, President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's experiences illuminate the folly of Trump's approach to these two rogue states.
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All of American foreign policy for more than a century is attributed to some vague mix of business greed and arrogant folly.
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Critics regard the pipeline — and Germany's role in it — as an act of betrayal and a geopolitical folly of the first order.
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In today's fast-moving economy, it is folly to believe that one's educational journey should begin at 2202 and end at 2628.
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And the belief by many advocates of the bill that their sincerity triumphs the shortcomings of ObamaCare is nothing more than folly.
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In retrospect, many people have argued that the killing was a freak event that should not have resulted in the folly of war.
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It may seem folly in a country home to over a quarter of the world's truly poor to give people money for nothing.
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But unless a currency is overvalued (as the pound was in 1992), it is folly for a nation to celebrate a sharp decline.
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And perhaps, also, the odd deliberate folly dotted around, as opposed to the accidental follies that make up so much of modern architecture.
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Or is there enough stubbornness and folly in either man to keep on sawing off their party's nose to spite the other's face?
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Your presumption that, without medical training and experience, anyone can play app roulette, surf the net and become his own doctor, is folly.
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You only have to look at the two biggest players by land mass, China and Russia, to see the folly of that presumption.
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"The entire nation will pay for the folly of this government to block the Turin-Lyon line," he wrote on Twitter on Friday.
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So Apple doing anything that risks encouraging consumers to feel it's intentionally making its products worse is also folly of the highest order.
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"Most friendship is feigning / most loving mere folly," read one, from "As You Like It." Grandage cudgelled his brains to recall the speaker.
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But maybe reminding policy makers of his wisdom is one way to chip away at the wall of folly that still constrains policy.
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Syria was said to illustrate the folly of imagining, in a region riven by religion and ethnicity, that a better world was possible.
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In that light, he says, it would be folly to stop working with the agency, and supporting it in that sort of mission.
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" He added that "if Mr. Sánchez maintains his no," the elections will be repeated, a scenario that Mr. Rajoy described as "a folly.
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Almost every crisis that has come upon the West in the last 15 years has its roots in this establishmentarian type of folly.
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Backing President Bashar al-Assad in Syria so soon after his westward incursions looked at first like another folly with an uncertain outcome.
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Regarding Mueller, it would be folly for those of us who do not know what he knows to predict what he will do.
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Hitler realized the folly of affixing his signature to such an order, which, had it become public, might have caused him many problems.
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This devastation initiated a move toward tolerance among nations that came to see the folly of trying to impose their religions on foreigners.
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When the Latin Mass was suppressed at the end of Waugh's life, his youthful vision of it being said forever looked like folly.
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In a play about queer people hungering for love, romantic folly is only a small speed bump on the way to a relationship.
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Voters like Linda Wormley make clear that it is folly to assume the two current Iowa leaders will remain as such next February.
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Traditional TV ads saw the biggest windfall from Bloomberg's folly, pulling in about $130 million from 2019 through the end of January 2020.
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What folly to have staged it in a 23,000-seat stadium, with four Jumbotrons relaying the action to the mostly empty upper decks.
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A group of professors recently wrote Congress to alert it to the folly of repealing orderly liquidation authority and replacing it with bankruptcy.
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The judge was almost done, but she was two words short of bringing an end to a long chain of folly and absurdities.
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After digesting the writing of Burton Malkiel (A Random Walk Down Wall Street), I saw the folly of trying to beat the market.
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In doing so, it also exposed the folly of the controversy that had raged for the days in the buildup to this game.
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The nickname was surely also a snarky reference to an architectural folly — an extravagant, impractical structure erected purely to beautify a natural landscape.
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Taking away federal protection now — with the bears' food sources plunging and their ecosystem isolated — is an act of either deceit or folly.
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These days, the ruins of Fordlândia stand as testament to the folly of trying to bend the jungle to the will of man.
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WeWork opened investors&apos eyesThe dramatic decline of WeWork in particular has likely awakened investors to the folly of that notion, he said.
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It&aposs human folly to believe something bad won&apost happen to us — until it does and we regret not preparing for it.
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An Order of Myths member, dressed as Folly on the lead float, entered the secret society's clubhouse at the end of the parade.
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His remarks foreshadow what advisers say will be an unsparing effort to cast the entire Mueller probe as a pointless and expensive folly.
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The novel is narrated in the present, by a middle-aged Evie, who recalls the confusions and ardor of her teen-age folly.
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To listen to Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, the tax overhaul that Trump just signed into law is no mere plutocratic folly.
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He held classes at the Tempelherrenhaus, an 21949th-century neo-Gothic folly, where he could scandalize the bourgeoisie of Weimar en plein air.
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The point is that when you're in a secular stagnation economy, virtue is vice, prudence is folly, and good news can be bad.
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"It would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result," Mr. Trump declared.
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Virtually everyone (except the subsidized industries) recognizes their folly by now, but inertia and political influence peddling have kept them stumbling on like zombies.
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Opponents of Brexit say it is folly that will weaken the West, make Britain poorer and torpedo what remains of its post-imperial clout.
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If there is a folly to what Zhang Wei has done, there is also a defiance of the commercial aspect of the art world.
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For better or worse, the Garden Bridge is the "equivalent of a country garden folly", says Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.
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"It's like she has this window into my soul," Billy moons as his father tries to make him see the folly of his behavior.
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"The biggest folly is the belief that lowering interest rates by 25 or 50 bp will do anything to revive the economy," Baumohl said.
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A Trump policy overhaul may spark some short-term spats, but these foreign governments will soon recognize the folly of assaulting a crucial customer.
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But it's the moral consequences of the characters' actions that bear down on the film most heavily, the human folly that perverts their idealism.
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It is that, if the government believes its own predictions, it was the utmost folly to risk calling a referendum in the first place.
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And I felt that she sensed that this was her opportunity to move beyond all this -- to move beyond the folly of her youth.
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It's folly to pretend that judges and justices have no political views, or that their legal views are entirely separate from their judicial philosophies.
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Such opposing policy positions leave these people with nowhere to "go" and should lead to the policy proponents' seeing the folly of their thinking.
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It's you who hastened into a marriage because you thought it was better to marry a man who would not act with such folly.
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Acting independently and in haste on these plans can be folly, however, and many widows have dealt with unintended negative consequences of those decisions.
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It is possible because history demonstrates there is no limit to human folly or the dimensions of the disasters humanity can bring on itself.
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On Wednesday, the 71-year-old musician hit the waves on Folly Beach, South Carolina near Charleston despite many others were fleeing the area.
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If anything, the folly of the 'Manchester derby' in Beijing could be the final nail in the coffin for the concept of pre-season.
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"For us to be the cheerleaders of Brexit" and to encourage more Brexits on the road ahead "is the height of folly," he said.
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To their credit, Alameda County officials saw the folly of a system that harmed a lot of people and produced no discernible public benefit.
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It also might save the political reputations of members of Congress who risk becoming footnotes for their complicity in Mr. Trump's march of folly.
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"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as 'the most flagrant of all the passions,'" Tuchman wrote.
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Frankenstein, or its pop culture distillation into a metaphor for human folly, has new resonance against the ominous scenes of mountains and nuclear bunkers.
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I can continue engaging in the political system, work with university life to underscore the devastating folly of uncontrolled gun ownership, and so on.
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Wise leaders, facing a monumental crisis brought on by their own irrational distrust of information, would at least learn the lessons of their folly.
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" — Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from Huntington Beach, according to KPCC "President Trump has stood behind America's taxpayers and workers by stopping this folly.
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For some Moroccans, the train is an expensive folly whose funds would have been better spent on overcrowded schools or the overtaxed medical system.
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These theories aren't incompatible: As with so much else in Trump's world, personal psychodrama, commercial venality, political self-dealing, and moral folly freely mix.
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And he dispatched his staff to keep lawmakers in line and pump out messaging about the folly of trying to dethrone the 45th president.
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Boomers are the ideologues who lead our country into conflict through folly; millennials are cast as the young heroes that bring them out of it.
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Unlike your stereotypical elder, ceremonious sommelier, Wine Folly, the wine reference website Puckette co-founded in 2011 with developer Justin Hammack, is absolutely 21st century.
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It is folly to trust them to respect the appropriate limits of American power in Venezuela, to not go too far as the crisis progresses.
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Yes, there is a folly to what Wei has done, but his defiance of the commercial aspect of the art world immediately appealed to me.
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"The Cure of Folly" at the Prado was deemed to be more likely a copy of the Bosch original created by someone in his circle.
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But the euro divided economists, some of whom warned that binding Europe's disparate economies to a single monetary policy was an act of historic folly.
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Yet as it would be folly to destroy NATO, so it would be foolish to will the EU's collapse, for both trade and security reasons.
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Jim Chanos called Tesla Motors' proposed merger with SolarCity "crazy" and "the height of folly" while outlining his short positions in the stocks on Tuesday.
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Spanning much of the 20th and 21st century, the Print Fair was rich viewing for those who appreciate the timelessness and constancy of human folly.
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"Over the course of that presentation he convinced almost all of the believers of the folly of the prioritizing payments concept," said the former staffer.
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As the chart above shows, correlations change over time, so it would be folly to expect the relationship between crude and stocks to be maintained.
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It is enough to convince senior Republicans that talk of an eventual pivot is folly — that he is unwilling or incapable of being reined in.
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The Horizon is at once a grand accomplishment and a catastrophic folly, and "Deepwater Horizon" is above all a study in the mechanics of hubris.
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In his younger years, he would have hustled to accommodate a rush request—to "be the good-will guy"—but he now considered this folly.
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You start to root for Eleanor, despite her selfishness; for Chidi, despite his dallying; for Tahani, despite her narcissism; and for Jason, despite his folly.
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"Change might come from legislation, or collective action, or continued feminist advocacy, but it's folly to imagine it will come from companies themselves," Peterson writes.
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Thousands of businesses—from bait and tackle shops along the coast to retailers and manufacturers across the nation—suffer the consequences of the government's folly.
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The deepest source of wonder for Mr. Herzog has always been the particular amalgamation of vanity, folly, bravery and genius that makes every individual unique.
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Well-placed sources have told me that a majority of senior Pentagon and intelligence officials oppose a U.S. invasion, recognizing that it would be folly.
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A prologue — here, showing modern-dress tourists arriving on the Piazza San Marco, toting cabin luggage and cellphones — pits Folly against Reason, with predictable result.
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Instead of owning up to their mistake and letting it lie, Blizzard had instead used the outside canon of the game to justify its folly.
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But in a way, McCartney's folly is a message of hope, a message of solidarity with a youth he is spiraling ever further away from.
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But it's reckless folly, because it doesn't take Trump's creeping authoritarianism, his instability, his degradation of the presidency and, yes, his racism into full account.
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But if everything is etched in stone, if every folly or mistake follows us around like a digital shadow, then what good is that freedom?
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Pundits lined up to scoff at its maker's folly, mocking this ugly stepchild of a console, with its cheap looks and weird dual-screen design.
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"Under the Silver Lake" is less a cinematic folly than a category mistake, taking the sterility of its own imaginative conceits for a metaphysical condition.
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Those who believe recurring wildfires make it folly to develop California's wooded hillsides said so Monday, pointing to Fountaingrove as a disaster waiting to happen.
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Last September, he took on what seemed to be a folly: playing the suites outdoors, in front of more than 17,000 people in Los Angeles.
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The role of politics explains much—for instance, how billions of dollars were earmarked for a transportation-hub folly while the Tappan Zee Bridge crumbled.
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The British artist Phyllida Barlow has installed a reimagined version of "folly," a work she presented outside the British Pavilion at the 13 Venice Biennale.
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It was an undertaking whose eccentricity and grandeur bordered on folly: a social experiment disguised as an art project, or perhaps the other way around.
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The longtime tech journalist Adrianne Jeffries illustrates the scope, and folly, of a miscalibrated algorithm's inaccurate and even dangerous answers about history, politics and health.
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Mr. Trump's blunt language about the folly of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan led some to conclude that he was shy about using force.
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If laughter was permissible while that deadly folly was transpiring (mostly out of the public eye), it's probably O.K. to laugh at our situation now.
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So that leaves the Democrats as the only people with the power to put an end to the current spectacle of Republican incompetence and folly.
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Most of this damage has been done in the name of ending abortion in America, which is a folly of a mission, in any case.
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"It certainly feels like folly that I or anyone else has a definitive understanding or comprehensive understanding" of what was going on, Mr. Kushner said.
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"In this way, Goldsmith creates the greatest poem of the 21st century, an anti-monument to the folly of Trump's heinous smear campaign against Clinton."
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"In this way, Goldsmith creates the greatest poem of the 21st century, an anti-monument to the folly of Trump's heinous smear campaign against Clinton."
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Michael Wilson, an equity strategist for Morgan Stanley, cautioned that the WeWork debacle may mark something more than just the folly of a single company.
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U.S. arms deals for Iran's Sunni foes help bolster the case of Rouhani's hardline opponents, who say any detente with the West is dangerous folly.
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The paranoid, slithery "Folly (Health and Glory)" is a great example of the former, while the track after it is pure, freezing black metal fury.
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"They (the Israelis) have committed a great folly and have put themselves into a direct fight with Iran," said Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech.
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Some might say that of course all art has been reduced to entertainment and cynical investment commodities; to expect or fight for more is sheer folly.
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In 2014, a House of Representatives' committee report referred to the memorial as a "five-star folly" plagued by rising costs, construction delays and design flaws.
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The grotesque folly of Brexit will be enough to persuade many wealthy Britons to ditch the Tories, even if it means electing a far-left chancellor.
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Although he was illuminating opinionated and newsworthy pieces, his images were not topical: neither anchored by historical events nor political perspectives, he highlighted everyday human folly.
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Should those brittle prescriptions ever be broadly adopted, their folly would soon be evident, but not before risking our entire legal system, if not the Republic.
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More on stance and taking it away in episode one of Ringcraft: Contrast Jones' pressuring, but still defensively minded infighting with Ryan Bader folly against Teixeira.
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He is a case study in the difficulty of transcending tribal psychology, the importance of trying to, and the folly of ever feeling sure we've succeeded.
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Folly Cove: A Smuggler's True Tale of the Pot Rebellion, a new book out February 20th from Cinco Puntos Press, is Schweidel's retelling of the operation.
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Chanos said it would be the "height of folly" for Tesla shareholders to vote to bail out SolarCity, which he added has an "uneconomic" business model.
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But continuing to depend on a method of authentication predicated on a single insecure, hard-to-change, and easy-to-predict nine-digit number is folly.
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Dignan, the twentysomething fuck-up played by Owen Wilson who leads his friends into this folly, fancies himself a gangster out of a '70s heist flick.
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These monuments were all built as reminders of human folly, greed, and cruelty rather unlike all those war monuments in glorification of victory or the victors.
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It is past time to stop this cruel folly and allow states to treat marijuana as they see fit, without threat of heavy-handed federal interference.
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It would be folly to hope that any single intellectual intervention, no matter how trenchant, could undo this template, or could reverse or slow this trajectory.
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Against Chelsea, that logic was ruthlessly exposed as folly, just as it had been in a victory at Arsenal on the opening day of the season.
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The Brexit vote made me think of Barbara Tuchman's book "The March of Folly," and Claude Monet's lovely sequence of paintings of the Houses of Parliament.
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Recognizing the folly of "catch and release," even the Obama administration detained families together—until an activist judge forced them to begin family separation in 2014.
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As Fredrik Logevall points out in his study of American decision-making, " Choosing War " (1999), the United States was warned repeatedly about the folly of involvement.
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It would be political folly, Douglass reasoned, to ask the (white and male) electorate to see their power diluted by women as well as black men.
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Because with the so-called little clubs, whose stands will be filled with fans imploring players to press and force an upset, complacency would be folly.
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It would be folly for the opposition Labour Party to support that plan if a "no-deal" Brexit at the end of October remains a risk.
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Folly Soap by the New York product and lighting design firm Pelle offers soap in simple geometric forms inspired by fanciful buildings ($16 to $80 each).
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There are readers who'll say this experiment sounds silly, that the pull of screens is so strong it is folly to imagine a world without them.
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Trump claimed he had seen the folly in Bloomberg's effort from the start and warned that any effort by Bloomberg to salvage his reputation was futile.
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Florida needs to confront the reality it faces as a state in the front lines of climate-change-related disasters, including the folly of coastal development.
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Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, said it was folly to think Washington could ever rely on assurances from the Taliban about al Qaeda.
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Familiarity with his later work makes it hard to fathom how an architect so fixated on humility would begin his career with such a spectacular folly.
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There was a time though ... However, scientists weren't always this united on the folly of nuking, coating, coaxing, inoculating or otherwise warding off mammoth weather events.
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I have faith that America is learning a lesson about the folly of throwing a monkey wrench into the machine in an attempt to break it.
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Antipa noted "weak mineralization" in the Folly target area that is part of that project, adding that at this stage there was "no follow-up envisaged".
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It was a piece of folly, he knew, neither a photo nor a painting, but to Millie it was a great success and she loved it.
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However, the folly of Scaramucci's perspective is evident if we look back to the recent gathering of heads of state at the APEC summit in Peru.
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He loves to throw dinner parties in his folly in the woods, though he concedes it isn't always easy to attract a "proper roster" of guests.
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All but forgotten was the folly of Mr. Trump's repealing a flood protection rule, and the wisdom behind his call for practical improvements to government regulation.
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The West Virginia Democrat said it would be folly for his party to immediately announce opposition to Trump's proposals while Democrats were still licking their wounds.
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It is tough enough for the rest of us to live with the consequences of his folly without having to listen to his absurd self-justification.
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Each season of the show has gotten progressively more confident in spinning its byzantine tales of crime and human folly in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
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But will the folly of his deals for Albert Pujols (10 years, $240 million) and Josh Hamilton (five years, $125 million) hold Moreno back this time?
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"Today's vote highlights the pettiness of last night's delay and the folly of articles of impeachment that allege no crime and establish no case," said Rep.
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" Circuit Court Judge Alex Kozinski expresses a similar view on considering such statements in his dissent to the decision on en banc reconsideration: "This is folly.
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The couple found an 8-inch cannonball and a smaller 3-inch shell, Chief Andrew Gilreath with the Folly Beach Department of Public Safety told CNN.
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Folly Beach Island was occupied in 1863 by Union forces, who built roads, forts, an artillery battery and a supply depot, according to the city's website.
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"It will be folly to think that this won't happen again," Dr. Gregory Poland, director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group, previously told Business Insider.
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We knew that it was just money, and that one way or the other the government would step in and save the bankers from their folly.
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The old line was criticized as a monumental folly and waste of British taxpayers money but it became a strategic and economic lifeline for the colonial power.
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Fifty years later, Israel has had a preview of a Palestinian state in Gaza, and cringes at the prospect of replicating such folly on the West Bank.
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Expecting Afghanistan to turn out differently in just 19 years, when the actual diurnal administration is at the mercy of a corrupt local government, is sheer folly.
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And in fact he perfectly expresses the core folly and failing of the GOP's leadership: their denial of what they have unleashed in America by nominating Trump.
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The response to the financial crisis, which saw bankers saved from the consequences of their folly at public expense, was almost laboratory-made to encourage conspiracy theories.
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At least the camera's 160-degree field of view makes up for that folly, as I can see everything from my front steps to the parking lot.
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Because it's based on two fundamental principles: family and folly ... there will always be fresh reasons for the good people of Springfield to form an ugly mob.
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It would be folly to bet on that logic holding, particularly in a situation where the domestic politics of both countries could create the conditions for conflict.
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But I think we should have single-payer medicine eventually and I think we should squeeze a lot of the fraud and folly out of the system.
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He gets you to think about the way we have shaped the landscape to suit our needs, while recognizing the folly and hubris that goes into it.
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A retired physician, Selwyn appears to live like a patrician hermit, having largely abandoned the big house for a stone folly he has furnished in his garden.
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That said, the specter of nuclear winter helped spur major reductions in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals, by making the utter folly of nuclear warfare plainer than ever.
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Fortunately, there are members of the full House Agriculture Committee — which will now consider this bill — who see the folly in the USDA-only regulatory approach. Rep.
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This house, built in 1894, among the first in the plat, was once known as Buell's Folly, owing to the remoteness of the neighborhood at the time.
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According to Coons, that path would lead to folly, especially if it in doing so, Washington also alienates its European allies, as critics warn Trump would do.
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But as they move on to other topics, they should remember the health care debacle -- and the folly of putting their agenda at the mercy of extremists.
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His remarks on the folly of "prematurely forcing kindergarten kids to write" would get a thumbs up from anyone with a 5-year-old or a heart.
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Third, Kim knows what happened to Gorbachev, whose spectacular fall served as a lesson to dictators everywhere about the folly of attempting to reform a totalitarian system.
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Among the few elites who saw the folly of this project, most were artists, naturally alert to the way supposedly superficial things can in fact be essential.
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The bureaucrats and scientists who have tried to warn against the folly of treating every wildfire like a mortal foe have discovered their message is a nonstarter.
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Du Pont's folly was America's gain — and a reminder that in politics, things rarely turn out the way you want, no matter how much money you have.
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The idea that you can disconnect white people from their group position and make pocketbook arguments to them void of the history of their group is folly.
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Initiation rite: A dolphin-gazing sunset dinner from the waterfront deck at Bowens Island — a fish-camp restaurant and bar a couple of miles up Folly Road.
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If rapacious humans continue to ignore the welfare of trees and their green cousins, that folly will end up closing off the source of our very being.
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The folly of love is not so much about what we do when we are flooded with feelings, but what can happen when we have incomplete data.
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Canine folly In particular, dogs are especially vulnerable when toxic algae contaminates water because of their tendency to drink where they play or lick their wet fur.
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DOUTHAT There are smart, serious Catholics who've reacted to this show, and especially to the gala, as an act of folly by the Archdiocese of New York.
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As Carl Sagan said, 'To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
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This sort of folly sits at the heart of "Moving the Palace," gently offering up a commentary on the fragility of civilization and the insanity of power.
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We would consider it the height of folly if the request of a patient with cancer to die was granted without his having ever seen an oncologist.
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It would be folly if for the U.S. to dismantle — deliberately or accidentally — the coalition it put together, especially after that coalition has weathered several tough patches.
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A more resolute critique would zero in on the fraud and folly and hubris that always seem to accompany the deeds of the best and the brightest.
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"This film, intentionally or not, hits home accurately with climate science and one of the big under-appreciated impacts of climate change and human-folly," said Overpeck.
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The sheer scale of Arrington's alleged spending evokes the genre's epics: the Instagram-fueled folly of Fyre Festival, or the high-society confidence games of Anna Delvey.
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It is folly to expect dramatic changes in direction, no matter how great the opportunity, from an institution whose lack of imagination rivals that of Kaiser Wilhelm.
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Is the movement ready to consider situations in which women walk in as agents of their sexual desire but walk out as victims of their own folly?
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After "Last Tango in Paris," Bernardo Bertolucci, who died in November, made what is either the most misguided folly or the least appreciated epic of 1970s cinema.
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For cultures around the world, the stories of gods and goddesses allowed humans to conceptualize justice, demonstrate the folly of arrogance, and make sense of unexplained phenomenon.
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And while there's certainly plenty of folly in the tech elite's quest for immortality, I'm glad they've embarked on it—for reasons that go beyond sheer entertainment value.
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Their messy, party-holic escapades were not meant to be emulated, portrayed as the folly of individuals who placed a cycle of momentary, material bliss over improving themselves.
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Harrison's folly Weather has been a key part of the presidential inauguration since it was first moved outside in 21.77, when President James Monroe was sworn into office.
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He said the bank was surprised by "the folly" and added its experts were still working on an impact assessment, which would add up to "billions of euros".
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Ultimate Folly: The Rises and Falls of Whitaker Wright, out January 8, is the result, and offers a much fuller picture of Wright's dynamic life and robust story.
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It means that Angela Merkel must go — so that her country, and the continent it bestrides, can avoid paying too high a price for her high-minded folly.
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I think mostly what's being revealed is the folly of the party leadership in imagining that they could control, contain, or otherwise manage having him as the nominee.
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But it is all too tempting to view the empty baoli as a metaphor for decades of human folly in which precious water in India has been squandered.
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This speaks to the broader folly of the "Germany in meltdown" tendency, which imagines the country's current strength and prosperity as the fruit of ambitious, even hyperactive leadership.
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Speaking outside a campaign stop in Iowa, the U.S. senator from Texas blamed the North Korea incident on the "folly" of failed Democratic policies under the Obama administration.
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CHARLIE MUNGER: I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE SINGLE PAYER MEDICINE EVENTUALLY AND I THINK WE SHOULD SQUEEZE A LOT OF THE FRAUD AND FOLLY OUT OF THE SYSTEM.
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I still hope that at least the British march of folly will be turned back when those who voted to leave the EU realize what is at stake.
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Governments have done precious little so far, and relying on them for massive changes to curriculum, entry standards and more may be folly in a fast-moving world.
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I likened the stunt to a cartoon scene, and explained how and why House Republicans could and would resort to such folly, because of my history with them.
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The series follows follies as they beget other follies, but always traces them back to the one central folly of believing technology could best the ice at all.
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Perhaps the greatest folly in all of this, activists say, is the effort by governments around the world to paint homosexuality and the gay rights movement as imported.
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His fight with French President Emmanuel Macron for ideological sway will determine the direction of the European Union, whether or not Britain consummates its Brexit folly in 2019.
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" Or, as Mac Davis concluded in his cautionary song about the folly of trying to escape the Lone Star State, "Happiness is Lubbock, Texas, growing nearer and dearer.
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Wendy, who notes that she feels sorry for Humbert, asks Mr. Ivers what the word "folly" means, and he pretends she's asking him about the word "fondle" instead.
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Over 10 days, they regale one other with stories of folly and caprice from the world they have abandoned, to safeguard against the peril lurking at the door.
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The screenplay, by Allan Heinberg, alludes to it repeatedly without ever going overboard, turning the movie into a sly commentary on the arrogance, folly and cruelty of men.
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And in 2000, the folly of the company's high street strategy was laid bare when the company announced a turnaround plan that included the closing of 2150 shops.
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And declining to look for votes among white swing voters is folly, said Ms. Evans, who grew up in the small, majority-white, North Georgia city of Ringgold.
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After all, it probably wants to demonstrate, from its point of view, the folly of siding with Washington, so a U.S. ally is just as valuable a target.
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Mr. Xi, seeking to capitalize on the folly of Mr. Trump's move, then invited those Asian neighbors abandoned by America to join a Chinese-led regional economic partnership.
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Due to environmental impact studies, drilling there was outlawed because cleaning up oil in perilous, icy conditions in one of the most pristine environments on earth seemed folly.
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And while 1,028 economists signed a petition imploring the president not to sign, he could not then know that "Smoot-Hawley" would become a byword for economic folly.
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That does not mean dumping computers on schools in the hope that children will understand how to use them, a folly on which plenty of money has been wasted.
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But it is folly to think that stricter building codes and more fire engines can eliminate the danger we create by building and rebuilding in high-fire-risk areas.
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The kinetic characters in "The March of Folly" (2018) are presented like a parade, each train car pushed forward by the one behind, a metaphoric tail wagging the dog.
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But now, with Kavanaugh ascendant, I feel it is important to resurface his late folly as evidence of his unsuitability for the position to which he has been nominated.
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This folly also dictates his tactics towards Canada, Mexico and the EU. Mr Trump could yet withdraw from the North American Free-Trade Agreement and slap tariffs on cars.
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Brooklyn Beckham — the 17-year-old son of the extremely photogenic David and Victoria, and already a model — shared his own follicle folly in a Saturday morning Instagram post.
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The folly of Trump's suggestion, he said, is that calling for more aggressive stops around the country forces officers to come up with more subjective reasons to stop someone.
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Liam Donaldson, head of the Independent Monitoring Board of the GPEI, agrees that celebrating the expected extinction of polio virus "would not just be premature, it would be folly".
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Folly Cove, an inlet on the tip of Cape Ann, about an hour up the coast from Boston on the North Shore, was the site of the 1975 caper.
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Here's an excerpt from that 2011 review: Playing for Pizza should be a sprightly, introspective read about the folly of prolonged youth and the different forms redemption can take.
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And in August, Mr. Pompeo received an urgent cable from Mr. Taylor, the chief of mission in Ukraine, saying it was "folly" to withhold American military aid to Ukraine.
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The only surviving element of Seaman's Folly is directly across Broadway from the western end of West 216th Street: a scaled-down marble replica of the Arc de Triomphe.
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The Ruin, Hackfall, Grewelthorpe This Janus-faced folly sits on a precipice overlooking Hackfall, an 18th-century woodland garden near the rugged Yorkshire Dales (beloved of hikers and bicyclists).
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Roger Cohen BARI, Italy — The prospect that Britain might next week commit an act of national folly by voting to leave the European Union has politicians throughout Europe alarmed.
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What if you agree with Trump about the folly of the Iraq War, the perils of open immigration policies, or the need for a different right-wing economic agenda?
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Many people don't like what's happening, but raising rates in the face of weak economies would be an act of folly that might well push us back into recession.
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The United States is blessed with substantial reserves of oil and gas off the Atlantic Coast and it is nothing short of folly not to exploit those abundant resources.
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A Trump-centric approach might make sense in 2020, assuming he runs for reelection, but would be folly in this year's midterms, when Trump is not on the ballot.
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The defense sought to portray the gang as pill-popping, doddering old men, with ailments such as diabetes and bladder-control problems, who had engaged in a nonviolent folly.
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States should not and cannot impose their will on other states, but instead should compete for residents and businesses based on the wisdom or folly of their political choices.
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There were voices of doubt around me, an internal nagging need to be seen as mature, the idea that abandoning such folly was a grown-up thing to do.
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Leaving data protection advocates to point out the folly of risking the security of all users… So tl;dr: get ready for yet another chapter of the crypto wars.
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Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven is an auteur's folly as well, laden with ideas that never should've made it past the brain-to-mouth filter, let alone onto a record.
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When the stakes are high, some will see it as sheer folly not to use every advantage available: Never mind if it's unethical, as long as it's not illegal.
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But as has often been true in this election, in the midst of his folly you can see the questions that the next generation of leaders needs to ask.
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A study of a symbol, it is an allegory of imperial folly and decline that reads like a historical daydream: not about a city, but something almost as big.
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The arrival of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) to the world stage exposes the folly of relying on China, or any one region or country, for most of our supply.
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CBS would love to have another "How I Met Your Mother," a jovial and nostalgia-tinged sitcom with a built-in sense of both youthful folly and warm wisdom.
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But it is also important to recognize that the folly of the campus rape tribunals is not just an extremism isolated in the peculiar hothouse of the liberal academy.
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The orderly, preordained world that Beetle insures is upended when seemingly random events caused by human folly—instances known as Zed—overwhelm the company's machinery, rendering its predictions futile.
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It took too long, but state lawmakers who once abetted the Brownback budgeting folly passed a two-year, $1.2 billion tax increase this week to begin repairing the damage.
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Those who cling, as I do, to the faint hope that Brexit will collapse under the weight of its folly have been given a fillip; this is not over.
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Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the family moved to the Glen, a mammoth Gothic folly implanted in a deep valley near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders.
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The folly of reading too much into oil prices is that they are tremendously volatile, often driven more by the industry's internal dynamics than by the economy at large.
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It was mostly considered beneficial to both countries, but some critics derided it as "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox" — and even now, scholars debate whether it was a bargain.
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The very illusions that brought us victory are what powered our subsequent hubris, and nemesis rose from the inevitable disillusion of a world that trusted us in our folly.
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From this need comes the birth of something perhaps new in the history of human folly: a knowledge class whose very existence comes from its ability to not-know.
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Impatient, I took to the internet and found a polo club 45 minutes from my house with an indoor arena: the Simsbury Polo Club at Folly Farm, in Connecticut.
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Andrew Dice Clay, on the other hand, demonstrated the folly of trying to say that anything — even something as small as the availability of snacks — was Mr. Trump's fault.
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Mr. Rigo then took on another job that seemed folly to Wall Street and many Starbucks consumers: helping the coffee giant retool its baked goods, which were notoriously bad.
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Just as it would be folly to ask the Army to build and operate submarines, asking someone else to do NASA's job would be an invitation to organizational chaos.
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Even Scalia's ideological allies recognized the folly of trying to divine the "intent" of the authors of the Constitution concerning questions that those bewigged worthies could never have anticipated.
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But wherever it leads, the campaign to turn them away from Mr. Trump ought to unite his supporters and detractors on one issue: the folly of the Electoral College.
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The originality of the cards' stylization, draftsmanship, and composition make for a magnificent aesthetic achievement while displaying Smith's jaw-dropping imagination for fantasy, folly, ecstasy, death, and the macabre.
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Mr. Jude, while he shares with his contemporaries an unsentimental interest in human folly and failure, departs from the naturalism that has been their collective signature for the last decade.
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Mr. Quinn also understands the folly of ignoring the problems of the old New York, joking about how pimps were lined up in front of Port Authority like Citi Bikes.
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Jobs famously thought anything bigger than a 3.5 inch screen was folly and Apple only got around that by waiting for Jobs to be too busy dying to stop them.
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"To declare the global plans of the transfer of fresh water to China, without detailed calculations, is total folly," noted environmentalist and economist Viktor Danilov-Danilyan told the Siberian Times.
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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
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Six seasons in, she's suffered the folly—and often the downright evil nature—of the many men around her and has learned to rely on her own strength and wisdom.
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His popular environment minister Nicolas Hulot resigned in August in protest over what he said was Macron's lack of focus on the environment, saying nuclear energy was a "useless folly".
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City of Folly Beach officials on Wednesday issued a warning to visitors and residents alike to be wary of the creatures on the shore, which can deliver a venomous sting.
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Trump, who has long insisted that Mexico would pay for it, claimed that we'll be "reimbursed" by our neighbor to the south—despite the nation's repeated insistence that this folly.
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Whether one views manned space exploration with awe or indifference, cutting off funding for the ISS now would be a fiscal, scientific and national security folly of the highest order.
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Because most states contain at least some risk, the coalition to shield homeowners from the folly of living in a flood-prone area is ideologically diverse, from Massachusetts to Mississippi.
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In the withering of the pacifist movement and the country's general support for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, he saw proof that it was folly to expect lasting results.
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Bush's far-too-timid crawl to war and overlawyered "enhanced interrogations," rather than assuming because Bush's foreign policy went bad a far higher degree of recklessness and folly isn't possible.
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Letter To the Editor: "Guns in Tiny Hands: In a Week, Four Toddlers Shoot Themselves" (front page, May 6) highlights the tragic folly of keeping a firearm for self-protection.
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To be fair, both situations are quite different, but the dangers of such strategic folly, or what can only be described as fairytale foreign policy outlooks, should give us pause.
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The folly in replacing private business with government enterprise is that the public sector only achieves the common good when, by happy accident, it is mostly composed of altruistic people.
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"The Folly is a carnival village, an imaginary shanty town, built around a clock tower and a windmill," reads the description of the Black Rock City structure by Dave Keene.
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Research shows the folly of the group's "concealed carry" campaign to arm millions of ordinary citizens in all manner of public venues, from college campuses to restaurants, churches and schools.
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If nothing else, the nation can now see the folly that results from the trickle-down foolishness that mainline Republicans like the House speaker, Paul Ryan, still try to peddle.
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Military analysts say Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, would recognize the folly in waging an open-ended war in Syria, and in having to prop up Mr. Assad indefinitely.
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Fernandes looked furious: He stood for several seconds, staring at his teammate, arms outstretched, then turned away with his head in his hands, marveling at the folly of human existence.
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"The insanity and folly of this … cannot be overstated," Kingston Reif, the director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy at the Arms Control Association, tweeted in response to the report.
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President Trump swiped the show's typography to make swaggering meme images that perverted its themes (among them, the folly of demonizing the humans on the other side of a wall).
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" According to the 1988 Times review, "if there is one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it.
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There are also several places to eat, including the buzzing Blue Pig Tavern, the Boiler Room (a basement pizza parlor), Tommy's Folly Café for light bites, and the poolside cafe.
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The first scenario is folly, but a United States decision to start a pre-emptive war on the Korean Peninsula, in the absence of an imminent threat, would be lunacy.
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Gail W. Wright, a minister of the United Church of Christ, officiated at David's Folly Farm in Brooksville, Me. The couple met at Harvard, from which they graduated cum laude.
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"Gold" could have been a biting satire of greed and folly, a neo-Conradian tale of Western misadventure in Asia, a rousing fable of underdog triumph or a caper comedy.
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It is a multitiered tower of political idiocy, a sublime monument to the moronic, a gaudy, gleaming, Ozymandian folly that leaves many of the president's prior efforts in its shade.
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This blame-Sessions perspective is warped, since it was Trump's decision to fire James Comey (an earlier monumental folly) that was actually decisive in putting Robert Mueller on the case.
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To argue that a shift in money availability; a shift in real interest rates; and a shift in the value of the dollar; have no fundamental impact is simply folly.
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Then there is the secretary of homeland security, John Kelly, who — based on his testimony in confirmation hearings — understands Latin America and recognizes the folly of militarized, indiscriminate immigration enforcement.
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But by any traditional measure it would be folly to pick so many fights at once, and those battles have already yielded some spectacular defeats that have cheered his opponents.
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But climate activists say it is folly to bet the welfare of the species on the massive global deployment of a technology that, as of today, is unproven at scale.
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JEAN-LUC TAVERNIERDirector-generalFrench National Institute of Statistics and Economic StudiesParis You incorrectly characterised Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and her government as being "pro-Muslim" ("Sheikh Hasina's folly", June 3rd).
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But a soft Brexit is so obviously worse than what Britain has today as a member of the EU that it would underline more clearly than ever the folly of leaving.
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Even if they are not moved by humanitarian concerns to improve health care for their poorest citizens, recalcitrant legislators should at least see the folly of rejecting extremely generous matching funds.
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While the first of these considerations suggests that the Democrats would never allow Bloomberg to head their ticket, the second argues that it would be folly for them to reject him.
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"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly," lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg, head of the European Research Group, told the BBC, citing a Biblical proverb.
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Gorgeous as it was and is, the VAIO P stands as testament to Sony's predilection for wild ambition and tragic folly, and it's a sign of just how far we've come.
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" His hopes that Grant would be George Washington had been delusional folly, Adams decided: "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant alone was evidence enough to upset Darwin.
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As in The Changeling, this subplot develops the theme of true madness so that it can be understood in the main plot, which is otherwise simply full of stupidity, or folly.
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