Sentences with phrase «haunted by the knowledge»
We are haunted by the knowledge that we have placed our desires before our duties to children.
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The family and friends of many of those who commit suicide are haunted by the knowledge that their loved one died alone, and often in horrific circumstances.
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In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where knowledge was available to all — but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out.
But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us» - Carl Sagan (from «The Demon - Haunted World»)
And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right.
Haunted throughout his life by a lack of knowledge about his father, Elvis turns to the one person who can help him navigate the minefield of his past — his longtime partner and confidant, Joe Pike.
Clara is aided by a haunted mentor, Stelia, whose knowledge of their enemy Kalidess is both a bane and a blessing.
Her fellow villagers believe the previous dragonslayer has been killed by a dragon, but Astrid knows the real reason he s gone missing and this knowledge haunts her.In «The Si...
She is the author of Notes for the Breitenau Room of The Workhouse — A Project by Ines Schaber and Avery Gordon; Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People and Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, among other books and articles.
The knowledge, for example, that funnel web spiders can fall into swimming pools and survive for up to 24 hours by trapping air bubbles on hairs around their abdomen haunts me.