Sentences with phrase «something humans long»

Next week, RexRomae will be presenting Tempus Fugit, the debut London solo exhibition of VinZ, the provocative Spanish urban artist.Beyond money, individual success and fame, there is something humans long for: time.

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Tests show that the human brain can only concentrate on something for so long at a time.

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

Debbie Cook, the former mayor of Huntington Beach, California, was one of the first investors: «I thought, How can I invest in something that will actually be an asset for as long as humans exist and grow their own food?»

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

I'm going to answer this one based on my vast experience with human nature — something that can only be acquired after you've lived as long as I have.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

It seems to me that omniscience is a Divine, not a human, quality and as long as there is something that I don't know I WILL have questions.

It's because something in our human fabric longs to be transported beyond our mundane living.

Hence there is the acute danger that the believer will no longer consider this secular culture as his religious responsibility before God, but will regard it as something that interests him as a human being, but no longer affects him as a Christian.

We are reminded, time and again, that what human beings do with their freedom matters, even when, like James, they choose paths that are no longer easily understandable to most readers, renouncing worldly values for the sake of something «harder to define.»

They longed to belong to something, and thus arose the new solidarities, which are of so perverted a kind as to menace the future of the human race.

And if the desire for a final justice is part of our human longing, so too is that longing for something more, whatever it might be, that Kass and the Western tradition have long sought.

Belief in god is rather like the vestigial tails humans still possess: Something that continues to linger despite the fact we no longer need it.

Omniscience is a Divine, not a human attribute and as long as there is something that I do not know I WILL have questions.

I know there are those who will accuse me of exaggeration when I say this, but, until baseball appeared, humans were a sad and benighted lot, lost in the labyrinth of matter, dimly and achingly aware of something incandescently beautiful and unattainable, something infinitely desirable shining up above in the empyrean of the ideas; but, throughout most of the history of the race, no culture was able to produce more than a shadowy sketch of whatever glorious mystery prompted those nameless longings.

Rarely do pro-choice activists any longer describe the fetus as something less than a developing human life or treat the relationship of the fetus to its mother in terms of property rights.

On the one hand, there is something awesome about an intervention that no longer deals only with the soma, the bodily form, but goes right to the very core of human identity in order to shape the future not simply of one person but of his or her descendants.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

This happens because the human unconscious longs for stability, for something a person is used to, and a woman already has a «template» of her ideal relationship with a man.

Some will be obviously pregnancy - related (the usual ones involve breastfeeding something other than a human baby or putting an animal or your baby in the oven or microwave to «cook» awhile longer), and others will be just plain weird or upsetting, like your childhood nightmares.

But it is something to bear in mind that this is a strain that's been around a long, long time in humans and in pigs, so it's not as completely novel and unseen, as say one of these avian strains [would have been].

«That's more than long enough to pick up something interesting in the swinging singles bar of the human colon,» she quips.

If it means having humans live elsewhere for a longer period of time, but not reproduce, then that's something that might happen within the next 50 years or so.

Our new understanding of climate and sea - level change sheds light on something that has long puzzled archaeologists: How did modern humans colonize the far reaches of the globe so quickly after their exodus from Africa?

As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.

«In humans, fear is something that persists on a longer timescale than a simple escape reflex,» says Gibson.

«Advanced artificial intelligence could encapsulate the various components of human cognition and reassemble those components into something that is no longer human — and that would render us obsolete.»

Stringer: Well, it is certainly, it a stance that I have argued for a long time, but on the other hand, to be fair to the geneticists there are some who, I mean, Henry Harpending has just published a book called, I don't know, The Last 10,000 years of Human Evolution [or something like that], where he argues that in fact Neandertals did contribute, and he is a distinguished geneticist.

Julie's probably going to throw something at me for saying this, but microbes have been doing chemistry on this planet for a lot longer than humans have, and I would submit that they're the master chemists of this planet.

I didn't know that when TCGA was proposed in 2005 as a long - term (10 year) effort to identify the common mutations underlying major human cancers, the estimated price tag was something like $ 1.5 billion.

«If something similar happens in the human population, and I'm not suggesting it will, we may not know for a long time until we see infertility rates rise.

If I recall correctly a woman was deprogrammed via hypnosis to no longer be allergic to peas or carrots - something usually beneficial to humans.

I saw something yesterday in which it's — it's a mice study, so I don't know how direct it'll apply to humans, but that the cooler the mice were, like their blood temperature, the cooler they were, the longer they lived.

The film begins with Cheryl recounting how she got to where she is, this being her life - long personal pursuit for the something «more», which she felt exists beyond the typical human life boundaries.

Personally, and this is something I've been pondering for a long time, I view the current human fertility levels as UNhealthy.

I hate to admit that I'm struggling with weight when I'm growing a human and it has been something I've wanted for so long but it has been hard to look at pictures when you're used to seeing yourself in one way.

The noble savage, as if we'd lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings.

Director Scott Cooper, whose Crazy Heart was like catnip for Oscar voters, now seemingly tries to take on something close to Dances With Wolves, an epic (i.e. very long) Western that supposedly has some feel for American Indians as human beings rather than as villains or savages.

There's just a school in the middle of nowhere in Russia, where human beings are being taught to think of themselves no longer as themselves but as objects for consumption by something beyond themselves.

If you like those days - long Civilization sessions going through thousands of years of human development, the brief sessions of Starships leave you feeling like there's something missing — like you're eating a salad when you really want a hamburger.

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It's a long time since we've seen a blockbuster that engages with big questions — of death, of grief, of loneliness, of human existence — in the way that this does, and that makes it something to be cherished.

This relatable aspect of The Big Sick is what takes it from simply being a funny film with human moments to something that sticks with you long after you leave the theater.

This sequel is one in the truest sense, delivering the exact same gameplay and only adding something new in the form of more galaxies, a few powerups, and everyone's favorite human - sized dinosaur with a meter - long tongue, Yoshi.

It's Spider, but it's at once more and less expressionistic than David Cronenberg's film — and while the long, quiet, empty reaches of living in the giant abandoned warehouse of a mind in flux is a constant melancholy the two films share, there is something in Stroszek, crystallized in the haunting image of a premature baby pawing at its bedding, that does more to traumatize the human condition.

It's not just talking, though; it's also seeing other people as human beings with the same doubts and fears, hopes and aspirations, and longing to be part of something as everyone else.

«Dear White People»: Justin Simien's debut film sputters and sizzles with energy, making for comedy that says something and drama that finds the humor in human fallibility; it's been a long time since a debut by an American writer - director showed so much coordination between its ambitions and execution.

Treating these comprehensively, along with the rule of law and human rights, which have already been mentioned, is a major undertaking, but may be the only way to really achieve something stable in the long run.

Universities run much like any other human institutions, something that seems as obvious as it has long been misunderstood.