Dodd toyed and dallied in the telling, knowing his audience couldn't know where the joke was going and then warning them, just before the punchline: "You don't deserve this".
And, as a food-adventurous food-safety regulator once told me, knowing a little bit it much scarier than knowing nothing or everything.
Wisdom, we are told, means knowing how to "make the best possible decisions," how to "maximize the good".
"All of India's big political leaders have only one obsession, prime ministership," he told reporters, knowing full well that his name, more than that of anyone else, is most often projected for the country's top job.
On the contrary, he insisted, "the size of growth of government is enormous under President Obama" — which was completely untrue but was presumably what his sources had told him, knowing that it was what he wanted to hear.
"Boss, we want to be inside," Smith told Biancone, knowing that Lion Heart, the Blue Grass runner-up, breaks quickly, hugs the rail and could save valuable ground and energy while the cavalry charge behind him jostles for position.
Dad said they wouldn't follow me there (a No Snipe Zone, I was told); nonetheless, knowing they were out there waiting was simply too much.
While talk of patents and trademarks may not be the sexiest topic out there, as entrepreneurs on The Story Exchange have told us, knowing the ins and outs of both is key for women business-owners.
"You just wait," I told him, knowing deep down inside that the reason I had come here on my own was that I knew America was the place where the big progressive changes have happened and will happen again.
The woman took the knife and did what she was told, not knowing that it wasn't part of the carnival act at all the knife was real, and she accidentally drove it straight through Yochim's arm.
