So, I've had an obsession basically for 30 years, and that obsession has been, What makes the difference in the quality of peoples lives?

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you.

And last but not least, it is an obsession.

And the obsession can get worse when you've been rejected.

The national obsession is cricket, which is not an Olympic sport.

You know, in the communication of science there is this obsession with seriousness.

Indeed, Piketty argues that our obsession with growth merely serves as an excuse for not doing anything about health, about education, or about redistribution. And it is an obsession rooted very much in the present.

But the obsession with maintaining tradition in this way is not without a cost.

Now a fourth factor really becomes an obsession, which is, never betray the illusion.

A kind of sense of inner freedom as opposite to intense grasping and obsession.

Each time it goes to the object, it reinforces that obsession or that annoyance.

To me, this obsession is the source and root of all of our productivity and creativity.

The second of these three brain systems is romantic love that elation, obsession of early love.

And so kind of thinking about scale, my most recent obsession is actually with glaciers of course.

Indian couples have a strong cultural preference, bordering on obsession, for sons over daughters despite the strides in education and employment that women have made over the last few decades. Education and wealth have nothing to do with it in fact, some of the worst affected areas are in India s wealthiest cities.

Over the next few months, newspapers and television stations ran with the story as it snowballed into a national obsession. Alarmed by the public reaction, the Harbin magistrate ordered the case reopened, only to have the suspended sentence confirmed when the case was closed this March.

At the same time, I run a website on cool tools, where I issue a daily obsession of the latest things in technology.

Born in Southern Germany to a stable and well respected middle class family, his obsession with gaming as a teenager led him to hacking.

Why has science turned after only a few years from repudiating the existence of racial differences between human beings to generating a near obsession with them?

If you live only once, in one life cultures around the world, you will see an obsession with binary logic, absolute truth, standardization, absoluteness, linear patterns in design.

Perhaps Asia s most dangerous case of historical obsession is to be found in the relationship between China and Japan. The current dispute in the East China Sea over the Japanese controlled Senkaku Islands (the Diaoyu Islands in China) would likely be less tense if the atrocities of the Sino Japanese War were not rehashed so often in contemporary Chinese life.

Ahmedinejad pursues a dual objective with his anti Zionist obsession to de legitimize Israel and to re legitimize Iran s claim to speak for Muslims over the heads of their more cautious governments. He very probably means what he says about Jews and Israel, but is he a latter day Hitler, and is today s Iran the equivalent of Germany in the 1930 s?

Of course, it is also possible that Gibraltar and Bermuda have chosen to ignore the results, or dispute their significance. Either way, there is no doubting the global obsession with league tables nowadays.

Improving financial literacy would also help. The current obsession with government deficits and budgetary constraints should not deflect attention from the need for reforms that address the looming retirement crisis confronting many Americans.

Algeria unlike certain countries, which are ready to make any and all concessions simply to realize an ambition bordering on obsession is not prepared to settle for cut rate I repeat, cut rate permanent seats.

The world s seeming obsession with the BRICS perceived rise and fall reflects a desire to identify the country or group of countries that would take over from the United States as global leader. But, in searching for the next big thing, the world ignores the fact that the US remains the only power capable of providing global leadership and ensuring some semblance of international order.

Obsession with doom and gloom scenarios distracts us from the real global threats. Poverty is one of the greatest killers of all, while easily curable diseases still claim 15 million lives every year 25 of all deaths.

Global warming really is the moral test of our time, but not in the way its proponents imagine. We need to stop our obsession with global warming and start dealing with more pressing and tractable problems first.

Lego blocks playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks' colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open source robotics and a little adult behavior.

Pakistan is badly fractured, with domestic terrorism running rampant. Its military lacks the capacity to intervene in Saudi Arabia s defense while maintaining not only domestic security, but also readiness for war against India (an obsession of Pakistani generals).

And this shows that engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually most problems, once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

Although Schumpeter brilliantly captured the inherent dynamism of entrepreneur led capitalism, his modern real successors smothered his insights in their obsession with equilibrium and instant adjustments. For Schumpeter, there was something both noble and tragic about the spirit of capitalism.

Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.

And if you look at these qualities in the context of compassion, we find that the cognitive and affective components of compassion understanding people and empathizing with people inhibits, tones down, what I call the excessive self obsession that's in us, therefore creating the conditions for humility.

The right, for its part, must rethink its obsession with temporary tax cuts for households or businesses. The impact of such cuts on aggregate demand is almost always modest, and they are poorly suited for shifting expectations for recovery and growth in the post financial crisis downturn.

The prevailing obsession with the governance agenda entails a broad based effort to remold institutions in developing societies as a prerequisite for economic growth. The United Nations Millennium Project involves a large scale, coordinated big push of investment in human capital, public infrastructure, and agricultural technologies.

Fayaadism, by contrast, seeks the Zionization of the Palestinian national movement. It imbues the Palestinian cause with a positive ethos of nation and state building by superseding Palestinian nationalism s diaspora centered preoccupations and thereby transcending the paralyzing obsession with a never fulfilled vindication of rights and justice.

And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

They'll play it over, and over, and over.

And they've tried over and over and over again.

Germany cannot, however, indulge its obsession with supply side reforms without also pursuing growth enhancing policies. As Germany knows from its own experience in the early 2000s, the benefits of supply side reforms namely, improved competitiveness and higher long term growth rates take a long time to emerge.

In particular, the two countries whose problems drove much of the need for twentieth century European integration Germany and Italy were culturally and politically highly diverse. In both countries, early nineteenth century romantic nationalism gave way to a sober obsession with economic forces after the failed revolutions of 1848.