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Well, for example, if we tell any three-year-old child who is barely learning to speak in any city in the world today, "Watch out, a car," the child will jump in fright, and with a very good reason, because there are more than 10,000 children who are killed by cars every year in the world.
In 1900, for example, nobody was killed by cars in the United States.
Only 20 years later, between 1920 and 1930, almost 200,000 people were killed by cars in the United States.
Only in 1925, almost 7,000 children were killed by cars in the United States.
So they tried it on a few pigs, and none of the pigs were killed.
There was a study I particularly liked in which a group of depressed and a group of non-depressed people were asked to play a video game for an hour, and at the end of the hour, they were asked how many little monsters they thought they had killed.
It's not that I'm so sad, but I get overwhelmed, I think, because I could have killed myself, but my parents kept me going, and so did the doctors, and I had the surgery.
The chance in the last few years of being killed by terrorism is far less than the chance of being killed by lightning.
She becomes the so-called honor of her father and of her brothers and of her family, and if she transgresses the code of that so-called honor, she could even be killed.
Musicians were silenced, girls were flogged and singers were killed.
This caterpillar is a head-banging zombie bodyguard defending the offspring of the creature that killed it.
More than 80 percent described having been threatened by the police, including with the possibility of being raped or killed in jail or being tried as an adult.
We bled, we died, and we killed to stop that organization from the violence that they were putting largely against the Iraqi people.
So Biggie was killed weeks before that song made it to number one, in one of the great tragedies of the hip-hop era, but he would have been 13 years old and very much alive when "La Di Da Di" first came out, and as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, it's hard not to think that that song probably held some fond memories for him.
It was named after the platoon medic that had been killed about two months into the deployment.
At Restrepo, every guy up there was almost killed, including me, including my good friend Tim Hetherington, who was later killed in Libya.
He doesn't miss getting shot at and seeing his friends get killed.
Brendan was a team leader in command of three men, and the worst day in Afghanistan — He was almost killed so many times.
They were called murderers because they killed people's livestock.
Those men would eventually be convicted of placing a van filled with 1,500 pounds of explosives into the sub-level parking lot of the World Trade Center's North Tower, causing an explosion that killed six people and injured over 1,000 others.
Just imagine, if a brand new industry were launched today, and by the end of next June, that industry's products had killed seven million people.
Twenty-three years ago, at the age of 19, I shot and killed a man.
We can call this place in Congo a death camp, because those who are not killed will die of disease or starvation.
Soldiers have forced her to watch as her husband was tortured and killed.
They are raped, beaten up and sometimes killed with impunity.
These were words that could get you killed.
That's a terrible toll, but the vast majority were people of Muslim heritage, killed by Muslim fundamentalists.
In fact, she now has 23 bodyguards, because she has weathered bomb attacks that nearly killed her kids, and it took the leg off of one of her guards.
We should prepare the ground for this, even if we are killed."
They killed 67, including poets and pregnant women.
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