It allows us to measure the quality of our experience, to compare it to an abstract ideal, and to yearn for change.
It may be that Atlanta has already sprawled so far that it can never become a compact, pedestrian-friendly, quasi-European city of the sort American developers increasingly seem to yearn for.
By now, many Venezuelans are ready to forgive, if not to yearn for, the good old days under Mr Perez, who though suspected of corruption throughout his term, at least managed to make sure the graft was spread a little more evenly.
That is why my wife and I decided to perpetuate the cultural myth of Santa Claus with our kids because their little hearts and minds seem to yearn for mystery and fantasy, and because we both seemed to gain more than we suffered from that well-meaning parental deception.
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Aside from compression artifacts, the cable version has other problems too, like cropping and over compressed audio -- both of which are enough to make us yearn for DVD.
First is the importance of EU membership to people who yearn for some agency of economic progress, and their distrust of local politicians like Srdoc who take a more cautious view of the benefits versus the risks of EU membership.
With a language and culture similar to those of their big brothers in Romania, Moldovans seem half-hearted patriots though few yearn for their country to be knitted back into Romania itself.
My concerns for Mr. Obama aside, if you yearn for a second chance to make a good first impression I have some suggestions about how to maximize your chances for success if your belief that you can be seen in a good light rests on data, not dreams That your bad first impression was, in fact, an anomaly.
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Calling the anti-Springbok posturing by politicians "old-fashioned, anti-reconciliation and counter-productive to fashioning the united non-racial society we yearn for", Mr Asmal said the Springbok now belonged to all South Africans.
But why is it that so many people yearn for a return to the cold, miserable conditions that spawned the Black Death?
Both regulators and regulated institutions still yearn for the ability to outsource the tough decisions on credit risk to some certified experts.
Many of the people who profoundly disagree with his direction of travel and who yearn for a return to the old religion think they are trying to help him.
Neither modern consumerism nor the back-to-nature sentiments that make people yearn for rural bliss get a good write-up from Mr Rushby.
The Taliban's senior leadership, better informed, may well be less optimistic about their prospects although most Afghans yearn for peace, few want to see the return of the Taliban to Kabul.
More than just political poison, such a presumption ignores how devastating the jobs crisis has been for so many Americans who yearn to be productive, independent, successful contributors to society.
Keeping track of the vast, meandering mix of ancient artifacts and techno-mystic talk makes me yearn for the days when the point was to fight the Covenant because the Covenant was bad.
As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer suggest in The Progress Principle, we all yearn for more meaningful work where we get to use our best talents together, aptly supported by social enterprise software that leverages our capacity to accomplish greater things together.
The Citigroup Global Markets case is yet another illustration that, no matter how much some in the press and the public might yearn to identify clear villains whose fraud is to blame for the meltdown in the CDO market and the resulting 2008 financial crisis, when you investigate the facts, that is not the reality.
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One of the few is that kindness usually cultivates connection, something we yearn for in a time-pressed, ear-to-the- cell-phone culture.
The desire to dream again was a common theme, and many iReporters said they yearn for more hopeful times.
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It also urges Moscow to accede to the demands of the people of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania who yearn for rights they have been denied for five decades.
Those who yearn for a relatively car-free lifestyle should surely be able to have it.
The American girls yearn for something more than bourgeois stability, but Allen means for us to understand that a life of passion alone can lead to craziness and violence.
If you yearn for an endless summer, dive, cannonball, or belly flop in to this New Hampshire Escape.
Silicon Valley can also serve a greater purpose today as Americans yearn for any good news that indicates our economic troubles will one day come to an end.
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Many yearn for conditions that are so troubled that central banks and governments will be spurred to ease more.
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