cooler heads will prevail

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1. People who are calm and focused are the most likely to succeed or to have the greatest influence on events.

   The cooler heads will prevail when the top four men in the world do battle Friday in the semifinals at Wimbledon.

   1993 July 2, Robin Finn, “Tennis: Hotheads Need Not Apply to the Men's Final Four”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Mar 2014

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   This book assumes that cooler heads will prevail. Russian and American negotiators will find some way to accommodate the deployment of a modest interceptor force.

   2001, James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey A. Larsen, editors, Rockets’ Red Glare: Missile Defenses and the Future of World Politics, →ISBN, page 11

   Synonyms: saner heads will prevail