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But actually, the unintended consequence of this has been that venture capitalists, investors, real estate developers, have swooped in and they've begun buying up these plots of land right out from under these communities, because they have access to the technologies and the connectivity that makes that possible.

And so while my colleagues were building these cathedrals great and tall and buying property outside of the city and moving their congregations out so that they could create or recreate their cities of God, the social structures in the inner cities were sagging under the weight of all of this violence.

I just spent all this time buying this product and now I have to charge before use.

This isn't a matter of buying a fair-trade peach and calling it a day, buying a guilt-free zone with your money.

It felt like we were buying ourselves time.

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

So, businesses who catch Johns buying sex, using company-based equipment or company resources, but cut them a break or sweep it under the rug and don't fire them, are complicit in fueling demand.

Now, they said that they weren't buying.

However, as we get richer, each extra dollar of GDP is buying us less and less social progress.

So when I buy one box of toaster pastries, am I buying one thing, four things, or eight things?

We need to stop buying the lie that these images tell us.

So there's no need to start painting concrete green and putting in Astroturf and buying cactuses.

Stopping in cities such as Cairo, Mansa Musa is said to have spent massive quantities of gold, giving to the poor, buying souvenirs, and even having mosques built along the way.

I'm a big advocate of changing the lightbulbs and buying hybrids, and Tipper and I put 33 solar panels on our house, and dug the geothermal wells, and did all of that other stuff.

Either way, you'd eventually reach a point where the marginal utility for buying another movie ticket became zero.

Utility applies not just to buying things, but to all our decisions.

And once he had finally decided what he was going to buy, the jeweler said to him, "You know, you're very lucky that you're buying this now, because these pearls could go extinct very soon because of climate change."

I grew up in a small town called Garhwa, in Jharkhand, where even buying a sanitary napkin is considered shameful.

And because of them, we have pretty much easy access to all of the goods and services that we need, from getting electricity to buying a home, or taking a risk and starting a business.

So they were doing things like buying each other out of jail and lending each other money to buy properties, and I found myself going, 'Guys, this is not how this game is played!' to which they'd say, 'Dad, it's fine!

When the financial crisis hit in 2008, the central banks of the US and UK began buying bonds issued by their own governments in a policy known as "quantitative easing."

I see now that what I was really doing, at times, was buying your pain on the cheap, sprucing it up and trying to sell it back to you as freedom.

After all, America is deeply invested in this idea of economic transcendence, that every generation kind of leapfrogs the one before it, earning more, buying more, being more.

Maybe you buy that, but not everybody else was buying it, including such names as Aristotle.

The first thing I'm going to do is look up who I'm buying from.

His fund, Jana Partners, started stealth-mode buying up stock in Whole Foods, at a time when Whole Foods was struggling.

So these kids went to their principal and asked, "Why are we still buying straws?"

This is a cast, which I had bought, and then, after buying the cast, I found my own, and I don't have room for two.

Because short-termism prevents the CEO from buying really expensive safety equipment.

You mean to tell me that people worked their whole lives, buying cars, clothes, homes and material stuff but were living check to check?

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