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He taught us that the richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.
As long as the current assumptions hold that this is criminal, this is shadow, this is illegal, there will be no attempt at integrating the informal economic ecosystem with the formal or even the global one.
But every single attempt just ended up making things worse.
My equally desperate mother would attempt to soothe me and herself by putting on some music.
He talked about how the mandalas of ancient Hindu religion were kind of projected into the sky as an attempt to regain some sense of order after the chaos of war.
This was a deliberate attempt to erase trans people, and it was neither the first nor the last.
This is man’s first attempt at flying underwater.
Rape is not just an attack on a bunch of physical molecules, it's an attempt to insult another person's soul.
There is no attempt to structure the experience, to make it utopian in that sense that we put into it.
Those proteins include antibodies, which attempt to neutralize the new object and send out a signal that calls other immune cells to the site to strengthen the attack.
Somewhere out there in the world, there's a tiny group of people who would attempt, however ineptly, to kill us all if they could just figure out how.
Lesbian, gay and bisexual teens are more than three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers, and transgender teens are almost six times more likely.
And what we're going to attempt to do with this bread here, again, is to use, in addition to everything we talked about, this bread we're going to call "spent grain bread" because, as you know, bread-making is very similar to beer-making.
All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear.
And then the Oracle, the mind reader, would take an envelope one at a time, he wouldn't open it, but he would attempt to divine what question was sealed inside.
It's my vain attempt to say to people, "If you mate with me, your children are more likely to survive than if you mate with someone wearing a Swatch watch."
This was typically offered as a last-ditch attempt to cure a sick parent, and wasn't fatal to their offspring— it usually involved flesh from the thigh or, less often, a finger.
What all of these technologies attempt to do is to force-fit a standardized model of a predictable reality onto a world that is infinitely surprising.
So, once we discovered that it was really possible that we could actually do this monitoring, we decided to move this from research, to really attempt to phase up to a global monitoring effort.
And it's our attempt to quantify beauty by finding which regions of the brain are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.
So through my artwork, I attempt to depict the reality of what's happening with our environment and to make the invisible visible.
Each attempt was substantially different from the other.
By accepting this dichotomy, whether it's tongue-in-cheek, when we attempt to accommodate it in our world, and we try to build our foundation for the world, we're messing up the future, because: Who wants to be uncreative?
It's our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the universe, the world around us.
It's our attempt to influence things, the universe internal to ourselves and external to us.
The sciences, to me, are manifestations of our attempt to express or share our understanding, our experience, to influence the universe external to ourselves.
The arts manifest our desire, our attempt to share or influence others through experiences that are peculiar to us as individuals.
You may worry that you won't know what to say, and every attempt at conversation will be awkward, and the only time you'll feel comfortable is when you both just give up on talking and stare at your phones.
And for the rest of our time together, I'm going to attempt to speak in one language that is native to every single human being in this room.
And we're going to attempt the first air-righting response in a tail, with a robot.
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