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I always wanted to become a walking laboratory of social engagement: to resonate other people's feelings, thoughts, intentions, motivations, in the
act
of being with them.
So something that in other species are survival mechanisms, without which they wouldn't basically live, we bring into the context of human beings, and this is what we need to simply act, socially.
We're supposed to
act
with intent.
Therefore you will do well to
act
on the side, no matter how far into the laboratory you may go, to serve as teachers during the span of your career.
Martin Luther called the printing press "God's highest
act
of grace."
And Stanford University has been doing research for five years now to document how playing a game with an idealized avatar changes how we think and
act
in real life, making us more courageous, more ambitious, more committed to our goals.
And even in those rare cases where law enforcement has chosen to act, victims have no rights during the resulting criminal process.
Over the last century, we've become 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car crash, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, 89 percent less likely to be killed by an
act
of God, such as a drought, flood, wildfire, storm, volcano, landslide, earthquake or meteor strike, presumably not because God has become less angry with us but because of improvements in the resilience of our infrastructure.
And what about the quintessential
act
of God, the projectile hurled by Zeus himself?
And it is normal for the community to see people in various states of intoxication and withdrawal, to see people buying and selling, and to see people
act
and react violently.
The reason for this
act
was this image that I saw in my newsfeed.
And an important part of my history got left out of that story, by association rather than out of any
act
of shame.
But when you have millions of air molecules all together, they start to
act
in a way which is quantifiable, predictable and well-behaved.
And in fact, faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative
act
of a psychopath.
That was the first
act
of what I later learned to call freeganism, really an exhibition of the injustice of food waste, and the provision of the solution to food waste, which is simply to sit down and eat food, rather than throwing it away.
Now these are examples of New Orleans rebuilding in this way, but better if others
act
proactively with these changes in mind.
And then the Yemeni military got its
act
together, and ordinary people rose up against these guys and drove them out, and since then, most of their activities, most of their attacks have been directed at Yemenis.
So unless we act, unless we do something today, we will soon be faced [with] what some have termed the treatment time bomb.
It's like, if we don't
act
now, it's too late forever, for 10 years now.
What if we thought of fear as an amazing
act
of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself?
And so just the
act
of compromise itself, and sustained, real compromise, would give us even more time, would allow both sides even longer to spread out the pain and reach even more compromise down the road.
They
act
it out.
They
act
it out, and they're on their way to jail or they're on their way to being dropouts.
"He just can't act."
However, acting majors are not supposed to
act.
This
act
defines what a national lottery will look like.
It seems that everybody is getting into the
act.
I felt like I was performing this elaborate
act.
But this use of colors was not just an artistic
act.
Comets are a tougher
act.
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