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We have only been discussing and consumed with high-level preoccupations over troop levels, drawdown timelines, surges and sting operations, when we should be examining the details of where the social fabric has been most torn, where the community has improvised and survived and shown acts of resilience and amazing courage just to keep life going.

By 'real magic,' people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers.

And so practical wisdom does not require heroic acts of self-sacrifice on the part of practitioners.

And because walking was one of the first things I lost, I spent most of that year thinking about this most elemental of human acts.

And it is in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

But on the other, we root our self-esteem in the daily acts of trying to make one person's day more kind, more just, etc.

In both my vocation at Robin Hood and my avocation as a volunteer firefighter, I am witness to acts of generosity and kindness on a monumental scale, but I'm also witness to acts of grace and courage on an individual basis.

The people knew their God by His mighty acts.

And what we've been able to do is engineer a virus to basically take dye-absorbing molecules and line them up on the surface of the virus so it acts as an antenna, and you get an energy transfer across the virus.

And I've had some incredible warm-up acts.

So really what the ice does is it acts like a garden.

It acts like the soil in a garden.

Silk, during its self-assembly process, acts like a cocoon for biological matter.

And each of these proteins acts just like that solar cell that I told you about.

So we go out and play with it, and then we see how it acts, and then we develop our intuition from there.

So, as the old saying goes, if it looks like a linguistic script and it acts like a linguistic script, then perhaps we may have a linguistic script on our hands.

Some are driven by compassion, feel it's perhaps one of the fundamental acts of humanity.

One of the most fundamental acts of civilization is to ensure people can get enough food.

So, is it possible that the tumor cells are going to the skeletal muscle tissue, but once in contact inside the skeletal muscle tissue, MyoD acts upon these tumor cells and causes them to become skeletal muscle cells?

And we take this utterly for granted, because we're a species that is so at home with language, but you have to realize that even the simplest acts of exchange that we engage in are utterly dependent upon language.

A little-known fact about India in the 1990s is that the country not only has undertaken economic reforms, the country has also undertaken political reforms by introducing village self-rule, privatization of media and introducing freedom of information acts.

So it acts as a screen to protect the rail and the commuter, and not to have objects falling on the rails.

In the small, anonymous, monotonous every-single-day acts, I have to remind myself to be extraordinary.

But if there's one thing that I want to drive home to you, one thing that I can say, not just to you but to myself, is that it is the acts that make us extraordinary, not the Oprah moments.

And then I thought about how, much as travel insurance doesn't cover acts of God, probably my health insurance did not cover acts of idiocy.

In point of fact, no insurance covers acts of idiocy.

The whole point of acts of idiocy is that they leave you totally uninsured; they leave you exposed to the world and exposed to your own vulnerability and fallibility in face of, frankly, a fairly indifferent universe.

The first one is a polyanionic segment, which basically acts as a non-stick backing like the back of a sticker.

And so I went back and I studied my first two acts, trying to see who I was then, who I really was, not who my parents or other people told me I was, or treated me like I was.

But now, in our third acts, it may be possible for us to circle back to where we started, and know it for the first time.

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