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What followed that election was terrible violence, rape, and the killing of over 1,000 people.
And there were young people who were killing each other for reasons that I thought were very trivial, like bumping into someone in a high school hallway, and then after school, shooting the person.
I promise you would recognize my faith I want to show you how I've grown in this place In this place I'm not alone And I know I'll be OK But it's always harder When the winter comes to stay And I can't help remember all the words I never said And it's killing me That you're not here with me I'm living happily But I'm feeling guilty And you won't believe The wonders I can see This world is changing me But I will love you faithfully.
This is what is killing productivity, what makes people suffer at work.
If you're into knitting, you can find someone who is killing it knitting, and you can learn from them.
The headlines called them savages and barbarians, because the image of one man overpowering another, killing him with a knife to the throat, conforms to our idea of ancient, primitive practices, the polar opposite of our urban, civilized ways.
So seductive was this idea, so potent the metaphor of lock and key and killing something, that it really swept through biology.
What's at stake, as I said before, is not killing something, but growing something.
Which is why the story you're probably most familiar with is people killing each other for sneakers.
With this Trayvon Martin case, this is a guy, a kid, who was 17 years old and he bought soda and a candy at a store, and on his way home he was tracked by a neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman who ended up shooting and killing him.
And so even though we're doing less per fish to bring it to the market, we're still killing a lot of these little fish.
Gigantic solar flares can mess with our satellites and electrical equipment, but the chances of it killing you are pretty slim.
This attack results in a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier almost melting down, which was stopped just short of killing thousands of soldiers and civilians.
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, killing over 200,000 people throughout South Asia.
He imagined taking a cat and placing it in a sealed box with a device that had a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour.
Some types of shrimp can also create a similar shock wave underwater, stunning or even killing pray at a distance with just a snap of their oversized claw.
Now, with these same brain processes, we've gone from learning to survive to literally killing ourselves with these habits.
You first get ill when a pathogen like the flu virus gets into your system, infecting and killing your cells.
They're shooting at people, killing people, getting shot at, seeing their friends get killed.
We've all heard the tragic statistic of 22 vets a day, on average, in this country, killing themselves.
I live in a world that kill people who kill people in order to teach people that killing people is wrong.
Meanwhile, extremists are literally killing off civil society in some countries.
And they made a killing off of "Guardians of the Galaxy."
Quebec was threatening to secede, and Canadians were actually killing other Canadians over politics.
Heroin has moved in, killing a lot of people, people I know.
In August of 2014, protests broke out in Ferguson, Missouri, after the killing of an African-American teenager by a white police officer, under murky circumstances.
I soon witnessed boys like them killing one another in conflicts between rival groups.
Days later rounding on the same patient, she looks at me and says, "Your people are killing people in Los Angeles."
But there's no way to treat animals well, when you're killing 10 billion of them a year.
Let's get the numbers of the animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.
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