I know you love your child so why not give them the best
chance in life by starting out with an awesome parent or set of parents.
it's surely our collective moral duty and responsibility to our children to give them the very best
chance in life by being more ambitious about what we want them to learn.
Not exact matches
Buffett fans will get a
chance to hear him discuss his stocks and their performance on Saturday, even if they're not
in Omaha,
by tuning
in to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting
live stream starting at 10 a.m. ET.
Netflix description: «After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to
life in a new body with one
chance to win his freedom:
by solving a mind - bending murder.»
It means having a
chance at the kind of
life described
in 1931
by James Truslow Adams when he coined the term «American Dream»: a
life that's «better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.»
Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled
by Randomness: The Hidden Role of
Chance in Life and
in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
Since
Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million
in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in reserves (about $ 2 million
in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in 2015 and about $ 1 million
in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported
by donor funding.149
In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
In 2012
Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and
in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150
Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent
chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work
in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of
Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding
in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - u
in Q1 2015 whether to fund
Living Goods» scale - up.
But
in fact a whole generation of young adults is likely to see its
life chances permanently diminished
by this recession.
1 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled
by Randomness: The Hidden Role of
Chance in Life and
in the Markets, 2nd ed., (New York: Thompson Texere, 2004), 61.
Gerecht was essentially with (see his 2012 essay «
Living with Islam») certain voices
in the Obama State Dept., or among the academic supporters of the Revolution at a site like The Arabist, which for a time held that the Revolution presented a
chance to split the broad Islamic constituency represented
by the Brotherhood, to separate the Brothers ready to meet democratic secularists half - way, from the rest, and to let the latter earn the scorn of the populace through their own policies, actions, etc..
This article claims that a word game can gauge motivation levels, which is absolutely false on many levels, motivation is shaped
by a strong purpose
in life and not those that claim they are a product of
chance.
If humans were not designed
by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the
life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist
in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not
by chance) formula.
Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to
live in the afterlife with a
chance to have eternal
life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough
by doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can do.
Mormons believe we all just have a
chance to be there
by our faith
in Christ but if we aren't worthy enough, then we will still
live in a lower heaven but eternally out of the presence of God the Father.
For them, at last, there would be some kind of future; some older faces to apply to their unfolding
lives, some language
in which their identity could be properly discussed, some rubric
by which it could be explained - not
in terms of sex, or sexual practices, or bars, or subterranean activity, but
in terms of their future
life stories, their potential loves, their eventual
chance at some kind of constructive happiness.»
- We were randomly spewed across the universe
by a super nova - spinning rocks randomly affixed themselves
in an orbit around a sun -
by chance, the third rock from the sun was precisely the right distance to sustain
life.
The
chances that your spirit for want of a better word will
live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either
in another dimension or with another
life form from a distant planet who
by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).
I believe that man is,
by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his
chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected
by the political and economic conditions
in which he
lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated
by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.
There is no
chance for mastery
in living,
by working out what is properly credible on the basis of notions like demonstration, experiential tests, sufficient evidence, and so on» the fool's errands that modernity has sent us on, seeking a kind of legitimation that neither exists nor is needed.
I hope you are happy
in your
life without God but I personally can not understand how simplistic some people can be as to think that the entire world was created
by chance or some catastrophic «big bang» event.
The theory developed that perhaps lightning struck a pond of water causing several molecules to combine
in a random way which
by chance resulted
in a
living cell.
It is a
chance to say a word about their
lives as a kind of testimony
in miniature or to add a coda to the sermon
by pointing out something that,
in their opinion, the preacher left out or got wrong.
Anyway, I was thinking about that word «undignified» after that come - to - Jesus moment a few weeks ago, and realised that I've almost always found God most
in my undignified moments —
by dancing ridiculously,
by telling secrets,
by being willing to be foolish,
by taking
chances,
by working hard,
by engaging
in the mess and weirdness of family
life, all of it.
Jesus is then the
living analogy of God, and it is not
by chance that He expressed His message
in parables and gave Himself
in finite symbols.
But also it does seem to suggest that the universe exists because of God's creative action and the scientific evidence we have indicates that this creative action was not a one - off event because,
in addition to the problem of inheritance, the actual conditions for
life to occur on Earth are so stringent that they could not have happened
by a process of natural
chance.
In this view, we humans have common ancestry not only with monkeys but also with trees and fungi and all other
living things
by a process of natural
chance.
The odds of the finely tuned universe we
live in coming about
by chance are so unlikely that it's difficult to conceive of the astronomically large numbers involved.
You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds of
life forming
by natural processes to be estimated less than 1
chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions of years full of random mutations would result
in the impossible.
Richard Dawkins,
in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found
in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4
In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologist
In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of
life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today
by many biologists:
It is love to obey God, and
by having a swift death penalty we love the people
in our society [many of whom are our enemies also] and offer them the best
chance for a
life free from fear and crime.
The stupidest thing that I have ever heard
in my
life is that
life formed
by chance.
Unfortunately, they don't have the sense of autonomy that would lead them to refuse sex if their own
life -
chances (as well as those of their as - yet - unborn children) are
in danger of being damaged
by male reluctance to use the simple means of contraception readily available.
«The origin of
life by chance in a primeval soup is impossible
in probability
in the same way that a perpetual machine is
in probability.
The extremely small probabilities calculated
in this chapter are not discouraging to true believers... [however] A practical person must conclude that
life didn't happen
by chance.»
By dividing these two numbers we find that the
chance that any man might have
lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1
in 1017.
When a society regards itself as being charged
by a higher authority to care for each and every human
life in its charge, is it not the prime responsibility of a society so charged to intervene, to break into our privacy, when there is a strong
chance that death might otherwise occur?
If you feel like you have been condemned or judged
by this method, then maybe you need to search your heart for the truth,
chances are pretty good you are being convicted
by the Holy Spirit for the
life in which you are choosing to
live.
I say this because no matter how successful,
in an obvious way, such preaching may be, its principal value is that «the old - time religion» (thus conceived and proclaimed) provides for insecure and uncertain men and women an authority to which they may bow and thus be delivered, as they think, from too much victimization
by the «changes and
chances of this mortal
life».
But as soon as I get a
chance I would feel Iran and go somewhere I can
by atheistic self and not
live in fear.
It was just
by «random
chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our
life - is present here, that there is a balance of
living things to keep each other
in check.
But that Buddhist who spends his whole
life making the world a better place, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, basically all the acts (sans miracles) that Christ
lived by has no
chance of salvation because he did not believe
in the creator (the way he was supposed to).
And this scares you more than it would if the person with the power over extinction was someone who believed that human
life was an accident representible
by the 0.000000000000000000000000001 %
chance that some chemicals could combine
in just the right way, at just the right time, with just the right frequency to eventually give rise to sentience.
Can we lose that salvation i believe so if we totally turn away from him
by rejecting the conviction of the holy spirit
in our lives.I say that because as a new christian i accepted Christ into my
life and the holy spirit was convicting me to surrender my heart to him as Lord and i was resisting him i would not surrender to him fully and so he gave me a choice to either accept him or reject him.I believe he gives everyone the
chance to make that commitment as Lord of there
life.When we make that deeper commitment and follow him he will continue to perfect us through his holy spirit so that we conform to his image.
By the way i knew that if i rejected him at that point that was it he would never bother me again i would have been eternally lost the thought was terrifying at the time.There was definitely a spiritual battle being fought over me i was very aware i needed to decide which side i was on.Thankfully i chose the winning one.brentnz
The radical contingencies are what inspire a sense of awe and wonder: the fact that I exist at all, and the further fact that I am who I am; a «miraculous» recovery
by someone who was given no
chance to
live; a sudden break
in a stormy sky where the sun bursts through.
It possesses magnificent character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied
by his lesser brothers, his
life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him into slavery
in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious
chance should release him.
Otherwise, of course, theoreticians and philosophers even today would have much greater
chances in this respect than the «little man» who, to all appearances, dull and untouched
by the absolute issues of human
life, seems to
live a day - to - day biological struggle for existence.
Thank you brother for your comforting words and I should admit I was not taking a good care of my health lately nor was really enjoying my
life,
living in a boring routine that which God had wanted me to change
by putting me through such experience to compel me to make some changes to my routine
life which I appreciate so much to be given a second
chance... So Eid Mubarak brother although being late but better than never...!
«scientists have calculated the odds of
life forming
by natural processes to be estimated less than 1
chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power»
The fortunate
chance in life is that the two correspond, that my wish is my duty and vice versa, and the task of most men
in life is precisely to remain within their duty and
by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.
Antony Flew an ex-atheist had finally arrived at the right conclusion
in 2004 when he became convinced that the universe, the laws of nature, and
life itself could not have arisen
by chance