Born in Australia, but now living in Switzerland with his wife and his dog, his stories cross a wide geographical range but often draw
from elements of his life and experiences in the two countries he calls home.
Not exact matches
«Bitcoin and a lot
of its other virtual currency counterparts really have
elements of all
of the different asset classes, whether they're meeting payment, whether it's a long - term asset,» Giancarlo told CNBC on «Fast Money» Monday,
live from the annual Milken Conference in Los Angeles.
So if you're looking for ways to learn
from Sweetgreen's success and reach peak performance in your own company, think about how you can introduce or strengthen each
of these
elements —
living and working with integrity, being intentional, and always persisting.
Among them is the service's high operational tempo over the last three decades, enticements
from private industry, and frustration with
elements of Air Force
life.
This powerful offering, called HTE
LIVE, is based on insights derived
from interviews with hundreds
of successful entrepreneurs, who've laid bare the FIVE ESSENTIAL
ELEMENTS of the entrepreneurial mindset.
Can you create for me a
life from a random collection
of elements?
Within days, a coaltion force consisting
of elements from the United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Netherlands, and Turkey was mobilized, saving many
lives.
The lack
of a positive, high - priority response
from a series
of Republican administrations to what is now a long - standing, continuously worsening social problem has allowed politically marginal and intellectually moribund
elements to retain a credibility and force in our political
life far beyond what their accomplishments would otherwise support.
I believe in government; that men can not
live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum
of safety; that there is no form
of government ordained
from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic
elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.
In 1864, Louis Pasteur proved that point in one case, showing that spontaneous generation (that
life could originate
from nonliving matter, also called abiogenesis), though accepted by some in the scientific community (such as Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont about 200 years earlier, who also believed that the basic
elements of the universe was just air and water), was untrue.
Because here, it is called the galactic habitable zone and contains just the right concentrations
of chemical
elements needed to support
life as well being away
from dangerous radiation.
It is obvious also,
from the appearance
of sporting and acting «celebrities» in the empire, that this
element of the imperial programme became a lively component in the private
lives of inhabitants
of the empire.
And that is why, in our prayer at the altar, we ask that the consecration may be brought about for us: Ut nobis Corpus et Sanguis fiat... 3 If I firmly believe that everything around me is the body and blood
of the Word, 4 then for me (and in one sense for me alone) is brought about that marvellous «diaphany» which causes the luminous warmth
of a single
life to be objectively discernible in and to shine forth
from the depths
of every event, every
element: whereas if, unhappily, my faith should flag, at once the light is quenched and everything becomes darkened, everything disintegrates.
Rather, the primary
element in his preaching was the proclamation
of the coming
of God's righteous reign, but both the motive and the meaning
of his faith in that new order
of life were inseparable
from his care for personality.
It has often been charged that by focusing attention away
from «the world» to God, the kingdom
of heaven, and eternal
life, Jesus introduced an ascetic and otherworldly
element that nullifies human culture.
It is at best a prolegomenon which seeks to suggest an
element in the ministry
of Jesus that gives it a constitutive as distinct
from an exemplary character, that makes it the supreme action
of all history (action that is fully and entirely human, yet unique), action which crowns a ministry in which the ambiguities
of human
life are progressively articulated, being action in which their burden is endured à l'outrance.
If man today is asking can God's existence be affirmed as transcendent without making God a functional
element in an abstract scheme, it may be fruitful to realize that knowledge and experience
of God involve a cyclic growth process
from experience to schematization,
from formulation to God present in the dynamism
of man's
life and activity.
For Whitehead there truly is a divine
element in the whole
of things apart
from which there would be no
life, or thought, or freedom, or love.
Certainly the new
element can not simply be separated
from one's ordinary
life, but by fulfilling the precepts
of the catechism and the commandments
of the Church and being in this sense a good Christian, we have not yet adequately responded to God's call to our concrete and unique person.
Existence
of life was created
from water (among other material) so water is an essential
element of life... Adam was created
from mud (has water), so water is one
of the
elements to create
life and without it no
life will be present.
As Erich Auerbach, a literary critic Frei much admired, once wrote
of the Bible: «Far
from seeking... merely to make us forget our own reality for a few hours, it seeks to overcome our reality: we are to fit our own
life into its world, feel ourselves to be
elements in its structure
of universal history.
These signs are made by ordinary people
from elements of everyday
life.
The revelatory character
of sacred writings results essentially
from their powerful exemplification
of the first two fundamentals
of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked
element of surprise,
of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance
of the Hebrews
from Egypt or
from Babylon, the sense
of a
living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the
elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense
of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face
life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden
from outsiders, any exhilaration in
living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea
of God.»
Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years
from any other currently
living form
of life, not chemicals,
elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.
Second, each moment
of our
lives makes its positive or negative contribution to God immediately upon its occurrence, as well as through the cumulative reality we call the «I.» Third, since God's consequent nature «passes back into the temporal world and qualifies this world, «157 our
lives, being
elements in God, also «reach back to influence the world» even apart
from our direct social immortality.
When we know that the ultimate end
of man is in the very
life of God, we can view the entire universe and all its laws,
from the symmetry
of the
elements to the Incarnation
of Christ, as part
of one evolutionary Providence or Divine Wisdom.
Kaplan believes that different religions result
from the fact that each civilization sees in the important
elements of its
life media through which its people may achieve self - fulfillment or salvation.
Perception arises
from the same cause which has brought into being the chain
of nervous
elements, with the organs which sustain them and with
life in general.
«20 Niebuhr said it is a tragedy that the church cultivates its spirituality by divorcing itself
from an understanding
of the brutal
elements of collective
life.
But the uniquely creative
element in Christian experience is just the overflow
of new
life and power which come
from the depths
of that experience in which our human despair is met by the suffering love
of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.
It is true that purposefulness is much harder to see in lifeless than in
living things, since the
element of appetite,
of striving for a good as a goal, seems absent
from the former, whereas it becomes increasingly important and evident in the latter in proportion to their complexity, their rank in the hierarchy
of living forms.
It calls every member
of the Church • to renew their faith; • to make an actual effort to share it; • to recognise, certainly, a growing awareness
of people to the changing circumstances
of life today; • to value what is positive in every culture, while at the same time purifying it
from elements that are contrary to the full realisation
of the person according to the design
of God revealed in Christ.
June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether
life exists in outer space, but new research
from a team
of scientists led by a University
of South Florida astrobiologist now shows that one key
element that produced
life on Earth was carried here on meteorites.
Process - relational thinkers here find scientific backing for their contention that there is an
element of freedom, mentality, purpose in anything actual at all, and that needs to be the case in a consistently evolutionary view where the complex forms
of life emerge
from the simple.
The so - called Tridentine rite,
of course, far
from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view
of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a
living manifestation
of the Newmanian principle
of development, wherebya process
of continuous change is inevitable if the essence
of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms
of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal
of 1570, itself containing ancient
elements, «were inspired by the Council
of Trent.
Borrowing definitions
from J. S. Furnivall, the editors thought pluralism was comprised
of «two or more
elements which
live side by side, yet without mingling, in one political unit.»
Hitherto, in the eyes
of a Science too much accustomed to reconstruct the world on one spatial axis extending in a line
from the infinitely small to the infinitely great, the larger molecules
of organic chemistry, and still more the
living cellular composites, have existed without any defined position, like wandering stars, in the general scheme
of cosmic
elements.
What we then see is a flood
of sympathetic forces, spreading
from the heart
of the system, which transforms the whole nature
of the phenomenon: sympathy in the first place (an act
of quasi-adoration) on the part
of all the
elements gathered together for the general impulse that carries them along; and also the sympathy (this time fraternal)
of each separate
element for all that is most unique and incommunicable in each
of the co-
elements with which it converges in the unity, not only
of a single act
of vision but
of a single
living subject.
(g) The mythological
element in the kerygma is not, we have shown, the importation into the New Testament
of ideas
from non-Biblical religions, ideas which could be eliminated or superseded by interpreting the underlying understanding
of human
life.
Because a mother - figure
of her nature and the defining
element of the womb, the vessel
of life, bespeaks a determination, and a prompting
from another,
from one outside.
These relative entities have evolved in a cosmic totality which is our serial Universe; they represent a process
of coming to be in which the composite is built up on the simple; and the process is a continuum; it progresses on and on,
from the particles
of matter to the most complex synthesis
of elements,
from these to
life,
from life to the anthropoids.
******************** If we look at all the six
elements that the Dua above is asking Allah for refuge
from, we would realise that all
of them are anti-Productivity
elements that if removed
from our
lives we can move forward much quicker and be more productive.
Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional
elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience
of the world.9 Only a
living person experiencing a whole series
of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware
of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full
of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken
from him in the hour
of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.
But there can be no doubt as to what
elements in the record have evoked a response
from all that is best in human nature: the mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message
of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as
life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority
of supreme victory.
Occasions
of contact with such
elements are avoided: the saintly
life must deepen its spiritual consistency and keep unspotted
from the world.
But at the same time, a culture
of life can not be achieved without some
element of righteous anger — at the injustices that create the conditions for abortion, at the abortionists who perpetrate it, and at the organizations which profit
from it.
This recognition
of the politicised nature
of identity will be
of assistance in the attempt to understand the characteristic
of the hyphen as something which is not isolated but as an entity which has the power to draw together
elements which come
from the
living past, while being informed about the machinations
of the present, and anticipating an uncertain future.
Another chain
of events led
from heavy
elements to the origin
of life.
Another chain
of events led
from heavy
elements to
life.