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He has forgotten to turn off his watch, which ticks, like a metal pulse against his wrist.
And this goes directly against my very obsessive nature to try to find the right answer and the perfect words and the right form.
It took us 10 years to unite 18 opposition party leaders, with their big egos, behind one single candidate against the Balkan dictator Slobodan Milosevic.
You see nine presidential candidates running against Lukashenko, you all know the outcome.
September 11 generated some interest in moving it over to Ground Zero, and I'm totally against that.
If you look at the lens of public wealth as against the lens of private profits, you get a completely different answer, which is clearly conservation makes more sense, and not destruction.
We need our genetic varieties because they're a sort of insurance policy against climate change.
After 9/11, either you were with us or against us.
We could never have done the convention against anti-personnel landmines and the convention that is banning cluster munitions unless we had done diplomacy differently, by engaging with civil society.
Recent proposals for supervised injection sites in cities like Seattle, Baltimore and New York have been met with stiff opposition: opposition that goes against everything we know about addiction.
It pitted the government of Canada against two people with a long history of drug use who knew the benefits of INSITE firsthand: Dean Wilson and Shelley Tomic.
And this is an example of the ways our own governments are using technology against us, the citizens.
This is a prime example of what happens when governments attack against their own citizens.
So Western governments are providing totalitarian governments with tools to do this against their own citizens.
This is not a question between privacy against security.
It's a question of freedom against control.
We choose not to choose, even when it goes against our best self-interests.
And I came out of medical school with the impression that if I memorized everything and knew everything, or as much as possible, as close to everything as possible, that it would immunize me against making mistakes.
And I went through this roller coaster, because after they stabilized her, she went to the intensive care unit, and I hoped against hope that she would recover.
And trade is another important incentive against violence.
So I weigh the costs against the risks and sometimes the safety of my family comes before my own authenticity.
I'm working against limiting myself.
When you're sailing against the wind and there is wind resistance, you have to move your boat back and forth, and back and forth.
You have to actually capture the resistance coming against you when you're sailing.
He pulled from songs that they'd sung together as an outcry against this outrage, and he used those as a device to connect and resonate with the audience.
You know, we self-sabotage our own ideas, we just butt up against the roadblocks and butt up against the roadblocks instead of choosing to let the struggle transform us and choosing to go ahead and have a dream and make it real.
If you look along the edge of the frill, they have these little triangular bones that actually grow big as triangles and then they flatten against the frill pretty much like the spikes do on the Pachycephalosaurs.
In that situation, you run up against what computer scientists call the "explore-exploit trade-off."
So I hope you'll use the information I've given you today to weigh your personal strengths against your own risk factors.
The boreal forest is also perhaps our best defense against global warming and climate change.
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