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And in Nigeria, gay people can legally be stoned to death, and lynchings have become common.
Because sometimes there's this fear and there's this apprehension that if I say anything, I'm afraid I'll offend, or I'm afraid I'll trigger something, so the common default is just saying nothing.
I will be honest with you: I do not like the word "impactful," but that is neither here nor there in terms of whether "impactful" is becoming common usage and becoming more acceptable in written prose.
So now I'm a philosopher, and I study hard choices, and I can tell you, that fear of the unknown, while a common motivational default in dealing with hard choices, rests on a misconception of them.
All those buildings have something in common: it's that something is searching for desire, for dreams.
In one condition, the computer picked from a dictionary of the very common words in the English language, and so you'd get pass phrases like "try there three come."
And there are animals, a lot of animals, and "monkey" is the most common animal and the 14th most popular password overall.
So it seems that at the end of the day, when we make passwords, we either make something that's really easy to type, a common pattern, or things that remind us of the word password or the account that we've created the password for, or whatever.
Apparently, for example, not that long ago, like only a hundred years ago — that's not that long in the course of human history — families back then used to make music together as a common form of entertainment.
I want to convey something that is truer than truth about our common humanity.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters.
Marvin Minsky, who taught me a lot about common sense, and I will talk briefly about Muriel Cooper, who was very important to Ricky Wurman and to TED, and in fact, when she got onstage, she said, the first thing she said was, "I introduced Ricky to Nicky."
And for me the key to this problem is that all these different puncture devices share a common set of fundamental physics.
I've had a lot of therapy, and a common form of treatment is to use this technique that's called smooth speech, which is where you almost sing everything that you say.
Think about a problem in the common life of your city.
Other super common behaviors that you may see, particularly in captive animals, are pacing stereotypies or swaying stereotypies, and actually, humans do this too, and in us, we'll sway, we'll move from side to side.
And anthropomorphizing poorly is all too common.
We have strong theories about how these common galaxies form and evolve.
It comes from a parable that's very common in the public health community.
Health is a common good.
I've found that the effect of flying causes smiles to get more common, self-esteem to blossom, and people get just a little bit braver.
It's not a common little river that flows into a canal.
Multiple infections, nerve pain, spasms, shortened life spans are common.
They're so different from each other, but they have one thing in common: they fled their homes in order to stay alive.
There is a very common sentiment that arises in this debate, even among people who are uncomfortable with mass surveillance, which says that there is no real harm that comes from this large-scale invasion because only people who are engaged in bad acts have a reason to want to hide and to care about their privacy.
As citizens, we are ready to decide on our common destinies, because we know that the way we distribute power says a lot about how we actually value everyone, and because we know that enabling and participating in local politics is a sign that we truly care about our relations to one another, and we are ready to do this in cities around the world right now.
My hope is that many, many other home-grown African institutions will blossom, and these institutions will all come together with a common vision of developing this next generation of African leaders, generation four, and they will teach them this common message: create jobs, build our institutions.
Dr. Emmanuel Ben-Soussan one of the authors, flew in from Paris to the ceremony, where he explained the history of this, that in the 1950s, when colonoscopies were becoming a common technique for the first time, people were figuring out how to do it well.
This spotted eagle ray is a fairly common sight in the oceans.
And that particular camera gives us an insight into what fairly common animals do but we can't even see it in the blink of an eye.
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