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While sitting one day on the banks of Cardoner River, "the eyes of his understanding began to open and, without seeing any vision, he understood and knew many things, as well spiritual things as things of the faith" (Autobiography, 30).

We knew many things about the Uruguayan, from his ability to exploit a yard of space to his propensity to fall to earth like an extra shot in a bad Western.

Perhaps his most influential book, however, was The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), in which he divides the world's thinkers into those (the foxes) who, like Aristotle and Shakespeare, "knew many things," and those (the hedgehogs) who, like Plato and Dante, "knew one big thing".

In his dear hands he held a sweet-toned lyre". "He knew many things but knew all badly..

This ancient notion came up in Croesus' interview with George Soros this week when he extolled his late friend Leon Levy, an astute billionaire investor, as a hedgehog who knew for sure when markets were overvalued and stuck to his guns; while he, Soros, was a fox who knew many things and was more impatient in the marketplace.

"I knew many things before, but had no way of describing them," says Sayani.

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The owner knows many things.

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About my Pereira, however, I began to know many things.

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