"As they say, nature abhors a vacuum, and the mind abhors chance, " says Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society and author of "The Believing Brain, " a book on how humans seem hardwired to find patterns in disparate facts and unconnected, often innocent coincidences.
These ideas take on the nature and form of the subject dominating the mind of the individual.
Achatz got to visit El Bulli while working at French Laundry, was blown away, and the innovative nature of the food set his mind racing.
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Every moment not spent refining his technique or in some way expanding his knowledge of human nature and how to exploit it is, to his mind, time wasted.
Indeed, the global citizenship "burdens" the President has in mind are significant and numerous, judging by the nature of the various treaties he and his representatives are seeking to advance.
It is not the keening and caterwauling I mind so much as the eerily human nature of the plangent cries, which can sound like anything from a baby crying to a couple of nightclub bouncers fighting in an alley.
To fully comprehend the nature of this threat and its sources, it is important to keep in mind that we have seen terrorists and their sponsors cooperating across seemingly insuperable political, ideological and theological divides.
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Ambling with the bluesman's toothache in his heel, he describes "cities of the plague, " plots surprise showdowns in which he slaughters sleeping opponents, ponders craven human nature ("They will tear your mind away from contemplation") and scans the skies for hints of geopolitical turmoil.
With that in mind, the CEO and CFO should have been more clear about the nature of the payments.
For now, however, Hagelin's future in pro hockey is the only thing on his mind, and he said his academic background will better prepare him for the unpredictable nature of playing and staying in the NHL. "That's the key here, " he said.
And never mind that when small business owners are polled in an effort to discover the true nature of their problems, government regulation from Washington is well down the list of items making life tough for the small business person a list dominated by the simple reality that there are not enough customers in these difficult times.
Last Fall, Thomas Nagel, the respected philosopher who teaches at NYU, published Mind and Cosmos, with the provocative subtitle, Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False.
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