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Instead, arousal nonconcordance.
The father will probably kick himself for years to come that he didn't take that seat instead of his kid.
Instead, as Einstein said, make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Instead, this example slide by Genevieve Brown is much more effective.
In Afghanistan, it could have meant instead of concentrating on the big presidential and parliamentary elections, we should have done what was in the Afghan constitution from the very beginning, which is to get direct local elections going at a district level and elect people's provincial governors.
On the left, it's when it's cold and the thermo-bimetal is flat so it will constrict air from passing through the blocks, and on the right, the thermo-bimetal curls and allows that air to pass through, so those are two different components that I'm working on, and again, it's a completely different thing, because you can imagine that air could potentially be coming through the walls instead of opening windows.
If we know people who are planning to support orphanages, we should convince them to support family services instead.
Yes, it's better to make more money rather than less, or to graduate from college instead of dropping out, but the differences in happiness tend to be small.
But the person who put it back together, instead of hiding the cracks, decided to emphasize them, using gold lacquer to repair it.
Instead, everything we touched we killed.
But instead of asking them how come they were not growing anything, we simply said, "Thank God we're here."
So years and years ago, I had this idea: Why don't we, for once, instead of arriving in the community to tell people what to do, why don't, for once, listen to them?
They're basically attempts at figuring out what people should do instead of rush hour car driving.
And if we are to move towards our collective bliss ... it's time we shed our focus on the physical and instead embrace the virtues of the heart.
So instead of quitting, I followed him everywhere.
Instead, I realized that oftentimes, I was the only overlap between groups of people that were usually in conflict with each other.
I hope that instead of feeling anxious and worried that they don't fit in that one box or that their identity will become irrelevant someday, that they can feel free to experiment and to take control of their personal narrative and identity.
And you were, instead of going and finding the information and bringing it back to the reader, you were holding back the stuff that was potentially damaging.
Zipcar buys cars and parks them throughout dense metropolitan areas for people to use, by the hour and by the day, instead of owning their own cars.
Instead of investing in a car, we invest in a community.
What if instead of calling them fears, we called them stories?
I read about a study recently of successful entrepreneurs, and the author found that these people shared a habit that he called "productive paranoia," which meant that these people, instead of dismissing their fears, these people read them closely, they studied them, and then they translated that fear into preparation and action.
Terrified of cannibals, they decided to forgo the closest islands and instead embarked on the longer and much more difficult route to South America.
But perhaps if they'd been able to read their fears more like a scientist, with more coolness of judgment, they would have listened instead to the less violent but the more likely tale, the story of starvation, and headed for Tahiti, just as Melville's sad commentary suggests.
By that I mean not being lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult emotions, but instead learning how to be in the here and now, how to be mindful, how to be present.
Now if that male is carrying a gene which causes the death of the offspring, then the offspring don't survive, and instead of having 500 mosquitos running around, you have none.
I'm talking instead about threats that are headed our way, but they're wrapped in a special energy field that polarizes us, and therefore paralyzes us.
For me, this means that they're seeing the value of difference, the joy it brings when instead of focusing on loss or limitation, we see and discover the power and joy of seeing the world from exciting new perspectives.
We were hoping that it wass going to have a kind of evil, spidery walk, but instead it created this pretty lame way of moving forward.
Instead, Conor came home one Friday evening and he told me that he had quit his job that day, his dream job, and he said that he had quit his job because of me, because I had made him feel so safe and loved that he didn't need to prove himself on Wall Street anymore, and he just wanted to get out of the city and away from his abusive, dysfunctional family, and move to a tiny town in New England where he could start his life over with me by his side.
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