Sentence examples for folly to think from inspiring English sources

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It is romantic folly to think otherwise.

It may be folly to think that life and thus death could hold any secrets.

It is folly to think Singh can succeed by playing into this trend, rather than bucking it.

It is folly to think that aides such as Priebus are going to be able to moderate Trump.

It is folly to think that five meals could even begin to introduce you to the vast culinary riches of New York City.

In 1962, Henry Beecher, a Harvard anesthesiologist, argued that it would be folly to think that true informed consent would always be obtainable.

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The Nine Follies: To think oneself immortal To think investments are secure To mistake conventional good manners for friendship To expect any reward for doing right To imagine the rich regard you as an equal To continue to drink after you have begun to declare that you are sober To recite your own verse To lend money and expect its return To travel with too much luggage.

It would be folly, however, to think that the arrangements of the past can last indefinitely.

The sections each begin with one of the fish Gould studied, and they start to resemble, or perhaps become, human characters in his life, the most memorable of whom is the sadistic, syphilitic Commandant, whose "folly was to think you could turn a penal colony into a nation".

As many others have suggested, it strikes me as folly indeed to think that the Iranians won't do just as the North Koreans did, wait it out and keep spinning centrifuges until they have developed nuclear weapons.

In the post, Mr. Ross said that the evidence backed up Ms. Gomez but acknowledged, "It was near folly to even think that anyone would believe Gomez about anything, let alone the fact that she witnessed the same guy kill two different people".

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