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And we'll see you have to both perceive and act on the world, which has a lot of problems.
Now I get an extra source of sensory information due to that external act.
"Don't say nothing to anyone, shut up really good and act smart."
And we'll act as if it's just an unfortunate mistake we've made, forgetting our pants on this cold January day.
And these changes made the gene not act as well as the normal gene would have acted.
They discovered it was the act of learning that produced the increased brain matter, not performance at the activity itself, which is a very interesting finding.
If we face irreversible and catastrophic consequences, we must act, and we must act decisively.
Those of us who care about all this would act better if we knew what the real costs were.
We're going to act like dogs.
One single act of violence can literally destroy your movement.
In 1884, Anton de Bary, the father of plant pathology, was the first to presume that fungi are guided by signals sent out from the host plant, meaning a plant upon which it can lodge and subsist, so signals act as a lighthouse for fungi to locate, grow toward, reach and finally invade and colonize a plant.
But now that I am actually smack-dab in the middle of my own third act, I realize I've never been happier.
But that means that two-thirds of how well we do in the third act, we can do something about.
Neil Selinger, to me, is the embodiment of mounting the staircase in his third act.
Perhaps the task of the third act is to finish up the task of finishing ourselves.
For me, it began as I was approaching my third act, my 60th birthday.
What was I supposed to accomplish in this final act?
Perhaps the central purpose of the third act is to go back and to try, if appropriate, to change our relationship to the past.
These live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.
You know, up until now, if the West got its act together, it could propose and dispose in every corner of the world.
So the policing layer around the problem becomes the real threat of the act.
And these forces act on, attract, bodies that have an electrical charge.
Gravity is also a field of forces that act on masses.
If you give people responsibility, they act responsibly.
Growing up in Perth as an overly cerebral kid ... (Laughter) I would always try and act in the way that I thought was rational, reasoning through every decision, trying to figure out the very best action to take.
When applied to the sorts of difficult problems that arise in human lives, the way that computers actually solve those problems looks a lot more like the way that people really act.
And ask all of our colleagues in the rest of the world, colleague universities, to help us to find and work and act like a hub to crowdsource all these AEDs all around the world, that whenever you're on holiday and somebody collapses, might it be your own relative or someone just in front of you, you can find this.
What we need, is we all need to act to ensure that Canada respects the massive amounts of freshwater that we hold in this country.
It's accessible, in principle, anyway, by anyone, everywhere, just simply by the act of looking up.
But the reason that I mention it is that early on, Rabassa offers this elegantly simple insight: "Every act of communication is an act of translation."
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