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At that time, the presidential office, Los Pinos, had issued a direct censor against the media.
Remarkably, he thought he had designed a constitution that was against political parties and would make them unnecessary.
Scientists have been able to leverage the immune system in the fight against cancer.
My boyfriend and I swam against the waves.
It provides financial agency, economic security to take risk and shield against loss.
It's pretty unremarkable and would be unworthy of discussion, except that the researchers found that if you feed it to mice, it vaccinates against PTSD.
It vaccinates against fear.
Fresh evidence shows that these in-person friendships create a biological force field against disease and decline.
All these prejudices pit us against each other to maintain the status quo, like auto workers in the US competing against auto workers in Mexico instead of organizing for better wages.
Why should it be OK to weigh the needs of the young against the old?
When an immune cell snuggles up against a cancer cell to take a taste, it's looking for signs of disease, and if it finds those signs, the cell gets activated and it launches a missile strike and kills the cell.
And some others may say, "Maybe, because AI already won against a top Go player."
Well, simply because the statue was positioned against a wall.
By the light of the moon, a group of youths sneak into the woods, where they take mind-altering substances, switch it up romantically, and brush up against creatures from another dimension.
And so it sucks up polluted air, it cleans it and releases it, in the fight against the car, in the celebration of the bicycle.
In order to be an effective investor, one has to bet against the consensus and be right.
And it's not easy to bet against the consensus and be right.
One has to bet against the consensus and be right because the consensus is built into the price.
And in order to be an entrepreneur, a successful entrepreneur, one has to bet against the consensus and be right.
In other words, there are two you's inside you: there's an emotional you and there's an intellectual you, and often they're at odds, and often they work against you.
I wasn't going to subject myself to people who were unwilling to remedy their ignorance, and I wasn't going to let something that was now a part of me ever be used as a tool against me.
This is the reason, for example, why something like climate change is such a serious problem, because It's two of these life-support systems, our planet and our civilization, kind of butting up against each other; they're in conflict, and we need to negotiate that boundary.
I was brought up in the 1970s near Wembley with Asian, English, Caribbean, Irish families living in our street, and the neo-Nazi National Front was massive then with regular marches and attacks on us and a permanent threat and often a frequent reality of violence against us on the streets, in our homes, typically by neo-Nazis and other racists.
They've been involved for decades in large-scale mass violence against minorities.
So against religious, nationalist and racial purists of all kinds, can you make his story a part of your own, not because he happened to be a Muslim, not because he happened to be an Arab, but because he was a human being with some very good ideas that shook his world and ours.
From the families who are fighting to maintain funding for public schools, the tens of thousands of people who joined Occupy Wall Street or marched with Black Lives Matter to protest police brutality against African Americans, families that join rallies, pro-life and pro-choice, those of us who are afraid that our friends and neighbors are going to be deported or that they'll be added to lists because they are Muslim, people who advocate for gun rights and for gun control and the millions of people who joined the women's marches all across the country this last January.
But the history of surveillance is one that includes surveillance abuses where this sensitive information has been used against people because of their race, their national origin, their sexual orientation, and in particular, because of their activism, their political beliefs.
Now, civil libertarians like myself have been trying to draw people's attention to these things and fighting against them for years.
But when a president repurposes the power of federal surveillance and the federal government to retaliate against political opposition, that is a tyranny.
And what is a shanty if not a person making a home for themselves against all odds?
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