It's the sub-text to Forrest Gump, but none the less true for that.
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in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.
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Not seeing the woods for the trees,
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without becoming dependent upon this knowledge.
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circular statistical argument?
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To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
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We seem to have lost that filtering ability somewhere down the post war line. No reader of Bonhoeffer's output but I recognise what he said here.