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And a core part of addiction, I came to think, and I believe the evidence suggests, is about not being able to bear to be present in your life.

So what happens is you go to school and people say, "Just believe me, you're going to like it.

The Greeks couldn't figure out the drones' sex, and part of the confusion was that they were aware of the stinging ability of bees but they found it difficult to believe that any animals that bore such a weapon could possibly be a female.

And when I tell them that the ferocious army-ant soldiers with their giant jaws, used to defend the colony, are all always female, they seem to not quite believe me.

Arabic script speaks to anyone, I believe; to you, to you, to you, to anybody, and then when you get the meaning, you feel connected to it.

And this is of course a completely irresistible metaphor to a novelist, because we would all like to believe that the stuff that we write down on paper can change the actual world in which we're actually living, which is why my third book is called "Paper Towns".

I believe that what we map changes the life we lead.

But I do believe that while maps don't show you where you will go in your life, they show you where you might go.

I really believe that these spaces, these communities, have become for a new generation of learners, the kind of communities, the kind of cartographic communities that I had when I was in high school, and then again when I was in college.

And I truly, truly believe that when we invented Agloe, New York, in the 1960s, when we made Agloe real, we were just getting started.

You won't believe me, but it's in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art; I'm an artist.

We can cooperate flexibly with countless numbers of strangers, because we alone, of all the animals on the planet, can create and believe fictions, fictional stories.

And if you all believe this story that I've invented, then you will follow the same norms and laws and values, and you can cooperate.

No chimpanzee will ever believe such a story.

Only humans believe such stories, which is why we control the world, whereas the chimpanzees are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.

Millions of people come together to build a cathedral or a mosque or fight in a crusade or a jihad, because they all believe in the same stories about God and heaven and hell.

And if I believe it, and you believe it, and everybody believes it, it actually works.

Many of my smug urban liberal friends couldn't believe I would go on such a venture.

I believe that if we're going to be serious about sex trafficking, we can't legislate or arrest our way out of modern-day slavery.

I believe that there is a way to stop Johns in the middle of the workday from buying sex.

But I believe it remains one of the greatest civil rights atrocities of our time.

This is an invitation for those who believe in equality for women and men, and those who don't yet know that they believe.

I believe in the power of local communities, in the transforming effect of relationships.

But I believe it's built on solid science.

Because if people believe that they're true, they create ways of living and institutions that are consistent with these very false ideas.

Would you believe that watch still works?

But there are bigger problems, believe it or not, than that dysfunction, even though I would argue that dysfunction that makes it impossible to get anything done in the richest and most powerful country in the world is far more dangerous than anything that a group like ISIS could do, because it stops us in our tracks and it keeps us from progress.

And that's why I believe that groups like TED, discussions like this around the planet, are the place where the future of foreign policy, of economic policy, of social policy, of philosophy, will ultimately take place.

... because that story allows those of us who make it to believe we deserve it, and by implication, those who don't make it don't deserve it.

I cannot believe I'm here.

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