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It was in that instant that the seeds were sown for a long career of hurting others, be it physical, mental or emotional.
I developed, in that instant, at seven years old, the belief that going forward in life, if a situation presented itself where someone was going to get hurt, I would be the one doing the hurting.
Not only did the instant craving come back, but she had to pull over from the side of the road and cry.
This can't happen in an instant.
Now, at the standard rate of fuel consumption, I would like to see the computer trace the flight path of this rocket and see how it can determine, at any instant, say at the end of 40 seconds, the amount of fuel remaining, and the velocity at that set instant.
It feels like there'd be an instant demand for an app like this right now, that you might freak out a lot of people.
On Thursday, just a couple days ago, the Tanzanian Ministry of Health announced that they are going to use this same technology to provide instant delivery of a wide range of medical products to 10 million of the hardest to reach people in the country.
It was an ability to kind of walk up close to somebody and have a more private conversation, but it wasn't instant messaging because you had to sort of befriend somebody.
And in America it was called "Our Final Hour" because Americans like instant gratification.
And this novel reveals that the real Garden of Forking Paths is time: in every instant, there are infinite possible courses of action.
In all this world of instant gratification and 24/7, on-demand results, scientists require persistence, vision and patience to rise above all that.
We couldn't survive for an instant in it.
I don't think there's any other way of getting instant feedback that way.
But secretly he was waiting for permission to express himself, to be seen, to be heard, and all he needed was another man holding him accountable and creating a safe space for him to feel, and the transformation was instant.
A casual impulse, a fancy, never thought of until now, hardly thought of even now ... No, more than impulse or fancy, the girl knows what she's doing, the girl means something, the girl means to mean, because it occurs to her in that instant, that beautiful or not, bright yes or no, she's not who she is, she's not the person she is, and the reason, she suddenly knows, is that there's been so much premeditation where she is, so much plotting and planning, there's hardly a person where she is, or if there is, it's not her, or not wholly her, it's a self inhabited, lived in by her, and seemingly even as she thinks it she knows what's been missing: grace, not premeditation but grace, a kind of being in the world spontaneously, with grace.
And the girl remembers, in this infinite instant already now so many times divided, the sadness she felt once, hardly knowing she felt it, to merely inhabit herself.
They are going to think about it as this glorious instant when we laid down the very foundations of their lives, of their society, of their future.
It is something that is a unique instant in the history of all of life.
We're a space family, an instant family.
I volunteered to interact with the graphics on the wall, and in an instant my life changed for the second time in two years.
Let's build in outbound confirmation messages, using text messages or SMS or instant messaging to find out from people who are within 100 meters of the rumor that you hear, if it is, in fact, valid.
In an instant, the palace dissolved around them.
They were part of a community, just for an instant, and it made them happy.
Rather than instant cash-back rewards on your credit or debit purchases, this is about 529 rewards for your student education.
And finally, finally, they've managed to put instant messaging on their computers at work.
The reason that happened is that somehow, for some reason, at that instant, you accepted the universe exactly as it was.
And with each version, kids get instant feedback about what works and what doesn't work.
And then what we can do now is we can do instant comparisons of things in their homes.
Now, retrofits are often accused of being examples of faux downtowns and instant urbanism, and not without reason; you don't get much more phony than an Astroturf town green.
They offer a much more immediate form of action in our era of instant feedback.
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