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Ten years later, after lots of hard work, we finally passed the Violence Against Women Act, which is a life-changing
act
that has saved so many lives.
So these action neighborhoods, as I call them, really become the inspiration to imagine other interpretations of citizenship that have less to do, in fact, with belonging to the nation-state, and more with upholding the notion of citizenship as a creative
act
that reorganizes institutional protocols in the spaces of the city.
In that act, that informal, bottom-up
act
of transgression, really began to trickle up to transform top-down policy.
I call this
act
of collecting, along with others, seduction capital.
They believe that ESG has the potential to impact risks and returns, so incorporating it into the investment process is core to their duty to
act
in the best interest of fund members, core to their duty.
Do you know he just won the Nobel?" (Laughter) I mean, that was Mom, but anyway, this guy is just a class
act.
On the National Day of Civic Hacking this past June in Oakland, where I live, the Code For America team in Oakland took the open source code base of Honolulu Answers and turned it into Oakland Answers, and again we held a write-a-thon where we took the most frequently asked questions and had citizens write the answers to them, and I got into the
act.
And I'm trying to this day to articulate the sense of empowerment and responsibility that I feel for the place that I live based simply on this small
act
of participation.
And by stitching together my small
act
with the thousands of other small acts of participation that we're enabling through civic hacking, we think we can reenergize citizenship and restore trust in government.
We need to
act
with great urgency.
That sometimes shows up in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to
act
in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show that even 80 percent of children who
act
in that fashion will not persist in wanting to be the opposite gender at the time when puberty begins.
By the very
act
of trying to reason us into your position, you're conceding reason's potency.
If either of them be unwilling, the
act
is an offense, totally different in its nature of effects.
You could view what he did as fundamentally a reckless
act
that has endangered America or you could view it as fundamentally a heroic
act
that will work towards America and the world's long-term good?
I'm curious to see who's willing to vote with the first of those, that this was a reckless
act?
CA: And who goes with the second choice, the fundamentally heroic
act?
I guess you would say that a single nuclear incident or bioterrorism
act
or something like that would change those numbers.
So Bill can look at the big data and say, "I want to
act
based on these global statistics."
Through history, people have gone back into their own pasts, sometimes to a precious time in their life, to their childhood, and often, the mind gravitates in the past to a moment of shame, some sin committed, some
act
of selfishness, an
act
of omission, of shallowness, the sin of anger, the sin of self-pity, trying to be a people-pleaser, a lack of courage.
No virtuous
act
is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own standpoint.
Invite people into your life who don't look like you, don't think like you, don't
act
like you, don't come from where you come from, and you might find that they will challenge your assumptions and make you grow as a person.
In 2000, the year 2000, that is over a year before Enron fails, by the way, the honest appraisers got together a formal petition begging the federal government to act, and the industry to act, to stop this epidemic of appraisal fraud.
That act, although ending his own pain, robbed me from ever getting to know him.
There are these newly identified neurons, mirror neurons, that
act
like a neuro Wi-Fi, activating in our brain exactly the areas activated in theirs.
We don't notice and therefore we don't
act.
But all it took was that simple
act
of noticing, and so I'm optimistic.
And multi-slacking is the
act
of having multiple windows up on your screen so it looks like you're working when you're actually goofing around on the web.
In addition to the UN tobacco treaty, there is, in fact, another global treaty that demands that we
act
on tobacco.
But if we don't
act
now, and
act
together, we'll need to make way for one billion people before the end of this century.
Any time a dictator in a general’s uniform commits atrocities while claiming to
act
on behalf of "the people," we have Augustus Caesar to thank.
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