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And the details behind these numbers are hard to contemplate, with more than 60 percent of the images featuring children younger than 12, and most of them including extreme
acts
of sexual violence.
But it is this behavioral model which is at the cold, cruel heart of neoliberal economics, and it is as morally corrosive as it is scientifically wrong because, if we accept at face value that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically, then it must be true by definition, that billions of individual
acts
of selfishness magically transubstantiate into prosperity and the common good.
The meager resources that have been put into the sector have already produced world-class acts, like Lupita Nyong'o and Wanuri Kahiu, but we are going to need a lot more incentives and investments to make filming in Kenya easier, so more Kenyan stories can get on the Kenyan TV and spark off the really difficult conversations we need to have with one another.
That metal
acts
as a microlouver, so from the exterior of the building, the sun sees it as totally opaque, but from the interior, it's entirely transparent.
Or you might look in an older individual who has mastered a complex set of abilities that might relate to reading musical notation or performing the mechanical
acts
of performance that apply to musical performance.
It
acts
like a mortar and it holds those bricks together.
It's actually a story in which our
acts
themselves are pushing the story in a particular way.
What I hope is that beyond individual merciful acts, that you will tell the politicians to do right by Africa, by America and by the world.
But it also
acts
like a kind of relay station that re-radiates and redirects information to many other parts of the brain.
Natural selection
acts
slowly, there are limitations to the changes it can make and it optimizes for reproductive success, not health.
I mean, you're clearly an incredible human being, but someone could take this knowledge and in some future not-torture chamber, do
acts
that people here might be worried about.
I was trying to think of the right model to describe this form of random
acts
of kindness by geeky strangers.
And I'd like to tell you the story in three acts, and if I have time still, an epilogue.
Many people think of it primarily in terms of charity, random
acts
of kindness.
What I got is basically a gesture-interface device that actually
acts
as a motion-sensing device made for two dollars.
So I put a small camera over there that
acts
as a digital eye.
And, in this kind of cauldron of moments and places and
acts
of deceleration, lie what a lot of people now refer to as the "International Slow Movement."
Perhaps sitting there, you had a little tingle of a desire for an emotion one eminent French sociologist called "ilinx," the delirium that comes with minor
acts
of chaos.
Because the aid and oil or mineral money
acts
the same way.
He said, "The skin
acts
like a sponge.
I blamed people of color for the crime and violence and the drugs in the city, completely neglecting the fact that I was committing
acts
of violence on a daily basis, and that in many cases, it was white supremacists who were funneling drugs into the inner cities.
I heard horrific stories from young women in the movement, who'd been brutally raped by the very men they were conditioned to trust, and I myself committed
acts
of violence against people, solely for the color of their skin, who they loved, or the god that they prayed to.
This was a high school where I had committed
acts
of violence against students, against faculty; where I had protested out in front of the school for equal rights for whites and even had a sit-in in the cafeteria to try and demand a white student union.
It brings three valuable benefits to the country: it has boosted Singapore's water supply by 10 percent; it protects low areas around it from floods because of its connection to the sea; and, as you can see, it
acts
as a beautiful lifestyle attraction, hosting several events, from art exhibitions to music festivals, attracting joggers, bikers, tourists all around that area.
It knows it's a little bit cold, it makes a plan and then it
acts
on the physical world.
Our righteous
acts
create immeasurable ripples in the endless river of justice.
"Well,
acts
of God.
In this picture, five
acts
of God are as important as everything else.
In other words, it is not
acts
of God that we should put aside.
Someone speaks, there's resonance in all these receiving brains, the whole group
acts
together.
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