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To create "Lotus," we carved over 6,000 figures.
I've been collecting wooden African figures from tourist shops and flea markets around the world.
It was important to erase the identity of each of these figures, to make them all look the same and easier to disregard.
But my reverence for these figures kept me from actually pulling the trigger, somehow feeling as if I would be shooting myself.
And I'm sure the figures are similar in other countries.
It has amazing Moche pottery of human figures.
New York literary figures Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood, all writers in the Algonquin Round Table, decided to stand up for transparency and showed up for work the next day with their salary written on signs hanging from their neck.
So the next thing was I wanted to put figures in these paintings, people, and I loved this new environment, so I wanted to have both people and this atmosphere.
He maxed out 11 credit cards and racked up six figures in personal debt and it still wasn't enough.
On numerous occasions in the last 200 years, scholars and activists have raised the alarm that we are running out of work and making ourselves obsolete: for example, the Luddites in the early 1800s; US Secretary of Labor James Davis in the mid-1920s; Nobel Prize-winning economist Wassily Leontief in 1982; and of course, many scholars, pundits, technologists and media figures today.
And several of these young guys ended up finding caring and compassionate father figures within these extremist groups.
Now, England is there too, but there are seven OECD countries with figures above 20 percent.
If you look at the far end of this graph, you can see the Netherlands and Korea are in single figures.
Now, official figures reveal that figure to be about five.
And they had every right to be angry, because in fact, I'd have to have closer to 200 dots before I could color one in, in terms of what the official figures tell us.
The official figures show, actually, it's nearer to three-quarters.
To the right of the slide, you'll see figures in gigatons, or billions of tons.
Siena's political leaders, who would literally govern under the eyes of these allegorical figures, were Lorenzetti's intended audience.
So I'm going to end with a couple of tunes from Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the more influential American music figures that most of you probably never heard of.
Let me give you some figures.
The algorithm figures out what is associated with success.
He's a very high-risk security prisoner in the UK and one of the most important Al Qaeda figures to be arrested in Britain.
And one study actually put figures on that, so it looked at children growing up in persistent poverty and how well they were doing at school.
And instead of using human figures to develop ideas of time and space, I work in the mineral world.
Indeed, Enlightenment figures like Spinoza saw it as warning free citizens of the various ways in which they can be subjugated by aspiring rulers.
And in the 1990s, origami artists discovered these principles and realized we could make arbitrarily complicated figures just by packing circles.
I walked away from a job with one of the top firms in D.C., Covington and Burling, six figures.
Marginalized figures take center stage, such as prisoners, cooks and janitors.
Allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.
Allowing me to believe that the private people we have loved and lost in our families, and the public figures we have respected in our history, just as Abraham Lincoln wanted to believe, really can live on, so long as we pledge to tell and to retell the stories of their lives.
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