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While there was certainly the acute pain of the encounter, the real issue is that my appearance can tell anyone anything about my ability.
Some have even mistaken sleep paralysis for an encounter with a ghost or an alien abduction.
This is what causes you to imagine that you're having an encounter with a menacing presence.
Do you change your mind about him based on this second encounter, or do you go with your first impression and write him off?
I personally had my encounter with this plant in the year 2009.
First, remember that many of the lies we encounter on a daily basis are far less serious that these examples, and may even be harmless.
The encounter between these two giants, Michelangelo and Julius II, that's what gave us the Sistine Chapel.
Perhaps by the time we encounter intergalactic life forms, we'll be able to communicate with them through a tiny gizmo, or we might have to start compiling that dictionary, after all.
When ibuprofen molecules encounter a location where the body's pain response is in full swing, they bind to specific target molecules that are a part of that reaction.
As these circulate, they destroy any foreign cells they encounter, simply by consuming them.
Every time you see from now on a pregnant lady, she's assembling the biggest amount of information that you will ever encounter.
After my daughter died I also spent a long time homeless, living under an overpass in a kind of profound state of zombie grief and loss that some of us encounter along the way.
Extroverts, when they interact, want to have lots of social encounter punctuated by closeness.
They're more likely to feel intrigued when they encounter something that contradicts their expectations.
We need to learn how to feel intrigued instead of defensive when we encounter some information that contradicts our beliefs.
The stories we tell about a movement like the First Intifada or the United States Civil Rights era matter deeply and have a critical influence in the choices Palestinians, Americans and people around the world will make next time they encounter an injustice and develop the courage to confront it.
Because a raid at your workplace, a chance encounter with local police could change the course of your life forever.
Now, the experience that gave rise to intersectionality was my chance encounter with a woman named Emma DeGraffenreid.
Well, religious ritual and rites were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary, to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants of that sacred, revelatory encounter that birthed the religion in the first place.
Therefore, every encounter with medicine is an experiment.
If a girl goes into an encounter hoping that it won't hurt, wanting to feel close to her partner and expecting him to have an orgasm, she'll be satisfied if those criteria are met.
But sometimes things can go wrong; for example, if you're born to a poor family and the signals are, "You better binge, you better eat every piece of food you're going to encounter."
And so you have, in spite of the deterministic nature of genetics, you have control of the way your genes look, and this has a tremendous optimistic message for the ability to now encounter some of the deadly diseases like cancer, mental health, with a new approach, looking at them as maladaptation.
For both men and women, to bring up gender is sometimes to encounter almost immediate resistance.
And I'm sure she also remembers that encounter somewhere.
In bringing such a future to life, what was important to us was that people could actually touch, see and feel its potential, because such an immediate and close encounter provokes people to ask the right questions, questions like: What are the implications of living in a world where I'm judged on my genetics?
Do a search and replace operation on the text of your mind, and wherever you encounter the word "self," substitute the word "other."
Now, in my line of work, I encounter many very charming people on the internet who like to tell me that climate models are all wrong.
And it showed me that our efforts resound, that we can alter the lives that we encounter for the good, and they in turn can take that momentum and push it even further.
As you go about your day and you encounter these moral choices, think of Lily.
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