Sentences with phrase «powerful than an idea»

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Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

What more logical idea is there than that we are going to evolve eternally, and that the ultimate result of evolving would be to become an all - powerful being?

The idea of writing a story about a man who had no faith and then suddenly was faced with accepting something more powerful than myself, followed by miracle after miracle — should certainly help someone else.

But more powerful are the film's visual embodiments of the idea that «the Spirit acts upon the body» to irradiate it, making it «more beautiful than it is»; for, Mary asks, «what is flesh alone?»

@Pat «Sandy, where did David indicate or perpetuate, as you say, «the idea that God isn't more powerful than a chemical imbalance, a hormone, even a life event»?

«I can not stomach a conversation where someone claims to be a Christian while simultaneously perpetuating the idea that God isn't more powerful than a chemical imbalance,» and yet people still are able to beat God and commit suicide.

I can not stomach a conversation where someone claims to be a Christian while simultaneously perpetuating the idea that God isn't more powerful than a chemical imbalance, a hormone, even a life event.

Sandy, where did David indicate or perpetuate, as you say, «the idea that God isn't more powerful than a chemical imbalance, a hormone, even a life event»?

Illustrating the influence of economists, Lord Keynes wrote: «The ideas of economics and political philosophy, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.

It's impossible to grow up in a culture so obsessed with sex — and unbiblical ideas about it — without two things becoming very apparent: Sex is far more powerful than we imagined, and...

I think Keynes was over-egging the pudding when he wrote, in the famous peroration to his General Theory, that the world is ruled by «little else» other than ideas, but I fervently agree with him that ideas «are more powerful than is commonly understood»; and that «soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or ill».

His idea was to generate homegrown economic development plans rather than sprinkle money around the state based on which legislative districts have the most powerful representatives.

In few places is this idea more powerful than among those planning our future energy supply.

A little more than a year ago, Milgrom, a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, gained new support for his ideas when his longtime collaborator, Jacob Bekenstein, published a new, more powerful version of the theory, one fully consistent with Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Research backs up the idea that a woman's own body image can have a powerful impact on her kids: A 2014 Australian study revealed that sons and daughters of moms with a current or past eating disorder were more likely to engage in emotional eating and have symptoms of eating disorders than other kids.

Healthy food swaps seem like a simple idea, but can end up being far more powerful than you think.

As with all of his records, Eight takes on a slightly different shape than anything before it, further solidifying the man's reputation as a producer capable of continuing to refine his techniques while landing on new and powerful ideas with each release.

While audiences are still cowed by Disney's all - powerful money - printing Infinity Gauntlet, an understated Hungarian narrative is quietly raising some far more provocative ideas than any superhero massacre ever could.

It has scenes of powerful emotion, but because of its large cast, it is more about ideas than lives, especially the idea that in a multicultural society, racism is more complex than we like to think, and doesn't sort its victims into the good and the evil but finds everyone can be a little of both.

This idea of using what one has to better those around is taken to a much grander scale, and it makes the film feel so much more powerful than your typical film.

Ideally a game console is more powerful than all three, but runs like the wii u. Using PC architecture in a console is not a good design idea.

«The whole movement toward the notion that teachers don't have a basic right to be in the classroom unless they are effective is proving so powerful as an idea that they're weakened because they've run away from it rather than embrace it.»

Appiah makes a powerful and surprising argument against the idea that the cultural artifacts of long - gone civilizations uncovered in archaeological digs should belong to the nation that currently occupies that ground rather than the world.

In social studies, students should focus on connecting content around powerful ideas and concepts rather than on lists of isolated dates and names (Brophy, 1992).

Excellence: We have high standards and challenge the status quo Responsibility: We understand the urgency of our work Initiative: We come with ideas and we make them happen Teamwork: We believe we are more powerful together than we are alone Enthusiasm: We take joy in the work we do Courage: We embrace the unknown

KDP Rocket is a book idea research tool which is much more powerful than any other free or paid option on the market.

You will reexamine what it means to be successful, how you will seek and achieve personal satisfaction, and what you owe your fellow citizen... Despite the vagueness of the egalitarian future they envision, and the sometime less - than - persuasive data in support of their arguments, Wilson and Pickett leave the reader to grapple with a powerful and disconcerting idea (Reviewed by Jo Perry).

Despite the vagueness of the egalitarian future they envision, and the sometime less - than - persuasive data in support of their arguments, Wilkinson and Pickett leave the reader to grapple with a powerful and disconcerting idea:

I think agents can become a powerful, impresarial force for talented authors, but they're going to have to work in some new ways — to wit, the idea I'm positing here of finding and partnering with promising people earlier, rather than forcing the writers to bear the entire brunt of «proof of performance» before ever getting to the starting gate.

These advancements come in a trio of levels, although this has no effect on the game other than giving you a general idea of how powerful and how expensive they are.

Considering that Project Scorpio will be more powerful than the PlayStation 4 Pro, waiting an additional 12 months may not be such a bad idea.

Jan Ken Pro, a fun game that revolves around the idea of Rock Paper Scissors / Janken, which you can download its prototype on itch, where you have to huge stones hands, one more powerful than your opponent, and smack them in order to win.

This pattern of female sidekicks who serve more as gameplay devices, door openers, and ego boosts than as people is a design approach rooted in the idea of games as power fantasy; players get to feel powerful and important, sometimes issuing orders that are obeyed without hesitation or doubt, sometimes being told that they're doing a great job.

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Both games feature a «Commander» unit, a giant mecha, which uses atomic - level manufacturing to build an entire economy on far - off planets literally from the ground up, which is an interesting inversion on how mecha usually are used in games: the «Commander» is more or less the player character, and while their large mecha is by no means weak, it's a central unit because of its production capabilities, and not because of its arsenal, which as a mecha fan I always thought was a nice way to work the idea of a «hero mecha» into an RTS, because you can relate to the Commander mecha's role as, well, a Commander on the battlefield rather than as simply a powerful named «hero» unit as exist in most other RTSes.

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks covering topics from science to business to global issues in more than 100 languages.

Artists have been portraying one of nature's most entrancing and dangerous spectacles ever since the idea spread about in the 18th century that the «sublime» can be more powerful than mere beauty.

The idea, of course, goes much farther back in time, with one intellectual stepping stone laid down more than 60 years ago by the Russian scientist Vladimir I. Vernadsky, who wrote: «Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force.»

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«The idea is more powerful and interesting than anything else right now,» said Jolly.

Bitcoin is a powerful concept, but it is much more than just a theoretical idea.

Microsoft's vision is predicated on the idea that we have these increasingly powerful phones with us at all times, so why are so many people doing little more than texting and checking Facebook with them?