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So the body has the ability to regulate the
amount
of blood vessels that are present at any given time.
So I decided to contact you myself, for you to assure me of safety and honesty, if I have to entrust any
amount
of money under your custody.
ALSO, THE GAME." (Laughter) The
amount
of time and effort that went into that is absolutely incredible.
And it explodes, and it shines as brightly as a billion suns for about two weeks, and releases, not only energy, but a huge
amount
of chemical elements into the universe.
So there seems to be a strange disproportionality at work, I think, in many areas of human problem solving, particularly those which involve human psychology, which is: The tendency of the organization or the institution is to deploy as much force as possible, as much compulsion as possible, whereas actually, the tendency of the person is to be almost influenced in absolute reverse proportion to the
amount
of force being applied.
It's a kind of mechanistic world that we'd all love to live in where, effectively, it sits very nicely on spreadsheets, everything is numerically expressible, and the
amount
you spend on something is proportionate to the scale of your success.
That is, you decrease the
amount
of dopamine, and their tendency to see patterns like that decreases.
They increase the
amount
of dopamine.
So even in the situation that doesn't look as bad as this, it's still affecting the
amount
of time these animals have to do their normal work.
It you slow down, you reduce the
amount
of noise you make and you reduce the risk of collision.
In a huge
amount
of debt personally to this expedition, and lying on my mum's sofa, day in day out, watching daytime TV.
So, on a wider scale, I hope that this journey was a chance to inspire other people to think about what they want to do with their potential, and what they want to do with the tiny
amount
of time we each have on this planet.
And for that same
amount
of time, I've been spilling sugar on the table and just kind of playing with it with my fingers.
All that driving that we've been doing out in the suburbs, we have doubled the
amount
of miles we drive.
And back in 1880, it would have been 15 minutes to earn that
amount
of light on the average wage.
It's extremely difficult for me to get Fijian news, which is strange, because actually there's an enormous
amount
going on in Fiji.
What I'm starting to realize is that you can get media, it's just an enormous
amount
of work, and you need an enormous
amount
of encouragement.
Some people have estimated that the biomass tied up in these microbes living in the pours and the cracks of the sea floor and below rival the total
amount
of living biomass at the surface of the planet.
So they look like they're starting out with a big
amount.
If you divide the
amount
of water into what the farmer was paid, the farmer didn't receive enough money to pay a decent price for water in any of those commodities.
These seem like really arbitrarily short limits when you think about the total
amount
of time in the universe.
There's some magical
amount.
Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge
amount
of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
So there's a titanic
amount
of data out there now, unprecedented.
And that little square in the corner, a naught .7 percent, that's the
amount
we're actually aware of.
Now this image constitutes a huge
amount
of work.
It's a way of squeezing an enormous
amount
of information and understanding into a small space.
It triples the
amount
of oily, messy goo that you have in the water, and it makes it very hard to handle.
And the thing is, too, is that we also feel very helpless about the
amount
that we consume, which is somewhat reasonable, because in fact, we have designed this system where, if you want to get a job, it's much more important to have a car that runs, to have a job and keep a job, than to have a GED.
But it's an inherent part of our energy policy, which is we don't talk about reducing the
amount
of oil that we use.
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