Sentences with phrase «fact about human life»

«Uncertainty, n. — The most fundamental fact about human life and economic activity.

Indeed, it is only one of the hundreds of known facts about human life which we must accept with a proper and reverent agnosticism.

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One of the most remarkable facts about the human body — indeed, about the great mass of living things — is that nearly every cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.

Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at conception, or over the proper structure of the family.

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In the company of discerning teachers and learners, my education was being shaped out of certain assumptions that had as much to do with living life as with thinking about it: that we are «in relation» whatever we may think of that fact, that the most basic human unit is not therefore «the self but rather «the relation»; and that this intrinsic mutuality demands — and should be the foundation of — our ethics, politics, pastoral care and theologies.

They have talked about it in most diverse fashion, but they have all been intent upon making it a basic factor in the interpretation of the lives of men and women, whoever they may be, wherever they may live, and whatever idiom they may have found useful or helpful in putting into some sort of language this persistent fact in the total experience of members of the human race.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

In the letters of Paul, who in fact has very little to say about the life of Jesus on earth and far more to say about the risen Christ, the focus is on the Savior as human, or anthropos — the Greek term inclusive of both genders.

Our nuclear knowledge brings to the surface a fundamental fact about human existence: we are part and parcel of the web of life and exist in interdependence with all other beings, both human and nonhuman.

Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»

In Pagels's and King's scheme, the gospels of Thomas and Mary point us to the hidden truth about our inner, spiritual lives, whereas the canonical Gospels rehearse external facts that orthodoxy asks us to believe about Jesus as the unique God - human.

After I gave birth to my son, I wanted to be reminded of the fact that my entire life was and is about more than my ability to procreate, birth, and raise another human being.

Having learned these facts of human development, I thought, if we learn about child development, and recover from our own childhood wounds and return to breastfeeding our babies and keeping them in arms and sleeping with us, we can surely parent children who will have a better life than we have.

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

Not only can these social scientists correctly arrange all 206 bones that make up an adult human skeleton, they can also determine facts about peoples» lives — age at death, sex, stature, nutritional deficiencies, levels of work stress, exposure to infectious disease and traumas — from a careful examination of the bones.

In fact, it's a representation of the numbers 1 through 10; the atomic numbers of several elements important to life on Earth; information about DNA; a representation of the human form; a graphic of the solar system; and a graphic of the transmitting telescope.

Existing theories about human intelligence have attributed this to our communal lifestyles: the fact that we live and hunt in groups, our need to communicate through language.

LOVE ME IF YOU CAN what can i say about me im a complicated human speciman most ppl as a matter a fact nobody gets me and they sure as hell tell me they do nt get me.i love music, books, i love peace and i love life and no matter how hard it get i always look up take a breathein and let it out and say im alive its life be happy no regrets.i love my family, ilove who i am and i look forward to who i'll become everyday i enjoy growin and livin my life how i want to.i love ppl a

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, emotional fact - based drama about both the depth of human suffering experienced during World War II and the remarkable courage and strength of character that ordinary women and men demonstrated when their friends» and neighbors» lives were in danger.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

Their median life expectancy is around five years but what happens, in fact, is that about half the cats disappear mysteriously presumed dead at approximately age one year (which corresponds to the late teen years in humans) and the other half learn how to take care of themselves and usually live a normal life span of 8 to 12 years.

We sat together for a while after Belker's death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives.

It can honestly be difficult to keep a holistic view with that much information to peruse, especially given the fact that some challenges or goals focus small («Build three coffee shops») and don't necessarily prompt the player to think about how those small goals will impact big - picture goals later on («Have 30 humans and 30 animals living in your «hood»).

I mean, people were saying the same thing about Battlefield One, which was based on an even more useless waste of human lives and suffering, but once it was released people found that the game did in fact try to be a respectful interpretation of the events it depicted.

Like several other shows from the early 1990s, including Jeffrey Deitch's Post Human (1992), Kelley's experiment took its cue from the rise of «mannequin art,» a term he coined to describe artists like Charles Ray, Kiki Smith, and Jonathan Borofsky, whose life - size sculptures — not, in fact, all mannequins — evoked anxieties about the role of the human body in a time wrought by the AIDS epidemic, the growth of plastic surgery procedures, and advances in biotechnoHuman (1992), Kelley's experiment took its cue from the rise of «mannequin art,» a term he coined to describe artists like Charles Ray, Kiki Smith, and Jonathan Borofsky, whose life - size sculptures — not, in fact, all mannequins — evoked anxieties about the role of the human body in a time wrought by the AIDS epidemic, the growth of plastic surgery procedures, and advances in biotechnohuman body in a time wrought by the AIDS epidemic, the growth of plastic surgery procedures, and advances in biotechnology.

We know that, with only about 0.7 degrees Centigrade of warming manifest, the Earth's climate is changing in sharp, abrupt ways, and that all sorts of terrifying, unprecedented risks are now facts of human life.

When presented with FACTS about the very real human suffering caused by their fans (ie the daily acoustic misery lived by thousands of people globally, just like those in this video) these monsters fallback on the «threat» of man - made catastrophic global warming in an effort to justify it.

Feral cats — wild cats that live independently of humans, but are descended from domestic ones — have established invasive populations over large swaths of Australia, but there has long been debate about just where in fact they came from, Australia being an island and all.