Strangely, as with almost all facets of disgust, it is in our nature to be attracted to this repulsion.
Knowing that the cause of our innovators' faltering ambitions lies in our own nature does not make it any less of a concern.
The mechanism of capitalism, as manifest through investment and reasoned speculation, helps facilitate our partnership with God by bringing to the surface that which the Almighty embedded in nature for our eventual extraction and activation.
One of the things not in our control, but in the control of nature, is aging, and eventually death, the final act of our being.
As we outline in our paper in the July issue of Nature Biotechnology, LS venture investing dramatically outperformed Tech venture investing over the past decade.
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But in some ways it runs against our nature to accept and deal with the world we live in.
"The bass is the most important animal on the planet, in terms of our recreational relationship with nature, " says Douglas Hannon, an author and scientist in Odessa, Fla.
We wanted to spend our week deep in nature, and this looked like the perfect spot.
Steven Pinker, in The Better Angels of Our Nature, recently pointed out that violence has been declining steadily for 500 years.
By placing design in a central place in our understanding of the world around us, and in defining nature and society as sets of interrelated flow systems, Bejan has created (or recognized) a new job description: the flow worker.
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An artificial demarcation in time defined by us Humans in our eternal search for supremacy over nature.
This important book by a U. Cal Berkeley economics professor contains vital insights and data about the nature of jobs in our new economy.
Besides, my particular interest is in the ones run by publishers of one form or another, and what that says about the nature of value in our world.
So whether it is our hopeless good nature that wishes to believe in the altruism of the free gift giver (unlikely) or our burning desire to receive something-for-nothing (more likely), the freebie-seeking thread is so persistent in us that the theme remains a constant in money and life.
It's our nature to band together in small teams for support and encouragement.
Price rationing provides efficient allocation of our great gifts of nature in a system of conservation that any environmentalist should adore.
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The commitment -- I mean, the longstanding commitment is embedded in the nature of the relationship with our very close ally.
"Back in Piemonte, nature is not totally our friend, " notes northern Italian wine icon Angelo Gaja, who began planting for his Ca'Marcanda near Bolgheri in 1996.
Even though, as you said, you had at the beginning the French prepared to go out and begin to operate above Benghazi and the UK indicating that they would do that, they both indicated that as asset that the United States could bring was that command and control from the beginning -- giving the nature of our assets in the Mediterranean.
And when I look back at my own tenure as the CEO of my own company, I realize that most of the skills that made me successful in product development, marketing, management, or just collecting our receivables were just footnotes to that crash course in human nature that I got from sales.
As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.
" Indeed, some of our favorite scents cannot be found in nature: several musks (traditionally an extract from a gland of the Himalayan musk deer), ambers (a blend of resins) and lemons, as well as "at least two crucial lily-of-the-valley components.
In other circumstances, such as our investment in youth education, the payback is long-term and societal in nature.
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"Due to the nature of our business and dynamics in program requirements, Lockheed Martin's workforce may expand and contract at various times throughout the year, " says Jeffery Adams, that company's director of news and information.
Most of our important relationships with other humans are monetary in nature.
"In our judgement these features, coupled with the very limited nature of the checks, constitute a recipe for confusion, inconsistency and the risk of misuse, " the ruling said.
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