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Mother Teresa actually said: "One cannot love, unless it is at their own expense."
Technology was a new HR platform, and it had been installed for 14 months at great expense, but nobody was using it.
So what that means is we have all of this information on regular people that's newly available at very low expense.
In my setting, residents got involved in robotic surgery in medical school at the expense of their generalist education.
And then, instead of taking that money home, I put it back into the refugee community as a business expense.
In the United States, it's the most common reason patients are admitted to the hospital, and it's our number one health care expense.
The cheetah is speedy, but at the expense of strength.
Maybe your partner makes fun of you in a way that hurts, or maybe they tell stories and jokes for laughs at your expense.
So these justifications make us all feel better, but at the expense of dismissing what we know.
I think when there are things you want, you tend to focus on them at the expense of other things that you know you probably should be focusing on more, would you agree?
Well, at enormous expense, TED has arranged a high-resolution immersion virtual reality rendering of the view from intergalactic space.
It will cover 90 percent of his funeral expense only if he dies in the next seven days.
That development should not come at the expense of the majority of the population is still considered a radical idea here in the U.S.
Now, if that felt a little bit awkward, I promise there was no joke being had at your expense.
The corruption and greed that manifested itself then is alive and well today, from greedy politicians and public servants willing to loot public coffers at their expense.
These are mosquitos who carry the malarial parasite which infests our blood when the mosy has had a free meal at our expense.
So, you can say where an urban development normally happens at the expense of nature, in this case it's actually creating nature.
There has to be a willingness to do good deeds, but not, of course, at the expense of our own sanity.
The breakfast that we eat as we sit down to check our email in the morning is still transported at great distances, usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled.
But it's not at the expense of people accepting their global responsibilities.
And I think one of the problems of recession is that people become more protectionist, they look in on themselves, they try to protect their own nation, perhaps at the expense of other nations.
So this developer said, "You know what, we'll underwrite the entire expense."
I don't think, for instance, that you will one day consult a supercomputer to learn whether you should have a second child, or whether we should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, or whether you can deduct the full cost of TED as a business expense.
And yet, what behavioral economics shows time after time after time is in human behavioral and behavioral change there's a very, very strong disproportionality at work, that actually what changes our behavior and what changes our attitude to things is not actually proportionate to the degree of expense entailed, or the degree of force that's applied.
And actually we don't spend nearly enough money looking for those things, looking for those tiny things that may or may not work, but which, if they do work, can have a success absolutely out of proportion to their expense, their efforts and the disruption they cause.
If I walk into a store in the United States, it's very, very easy for me to buy water that's bottled in Fiji, shipped at great expense to the United States.
These bizarre additions eat up screen time at the expense of elements you'd think would be quite important, like Dickens's dialogue and key chunks of his plot - the movie buggers up the game of twenty questions, for example, and at times fails to put scenes in the right order.
These two angles could have worked together had they been balanced accordingly, but with a romantic plot running around in circles and taking up almost twice as much time as necessary at the expense of an oil plot that's barely been established to begin with, both sides suffer.
It's a pity, because firefighters do an awesome job, and they deserve to have a good movie made about what they do, but not at the expense of common sense.
This is what happens when distributors try to seek a wider audience (ridiculous sweeping shots of the Rio coastline, etc) at the expense of a gripping story and characters.
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