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It's the outstanding collaborators who enjoy the long careers, because bringing out the best in others is how they found the best in themselves."
It took too long, so he started organizing group meetings over lunch.
And sure enough, not long after, one evening after a Chinese meal, this arrived, and I thought, "Ah, bing, ideagasm!"
And as I looked at our global economy, I realized it too is that system, but it's a system that effectively can't run in the long term.
It's an economy that fundamentally can't run in the long term, and if we know that we have finite materials, why would we build an economy that would effectively use things up, that would create waste?
If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future that really could work in the long term.
Materials would be defined as either technical or biological, waste would be designed out entirely, and we would have a system that could function absolutely in the long term.
Why can't I change something that has happened for a long time in our community?"
For a long period of time, we believed in a natural ranking order in the world around us, also known as the great chain of being, or "Scala naturae" in Latin, a top-down structure that normally starts with God at the very top, followed by angels, noblemen, common people, animals, and so on.
And you'll be given it for quite a long period of time.
And when I came back from this long journey and I'd learned all this, I looked at the addicts in my life, and if you're really candid, it's hard loving an addict, and there's going to be lots of people who know in this room.
Man: The soldiers with clubs this long beat us to get a confession.
In this rather long sort of marathon presentation, I've tried to break it up into three parts: the first being a whole lot of examples on how it can be a little bit more pleasurable to deal with a computer and really address the qualities of the human interface.
And as long as everybody believes in the same fiction, everybody obeys and follows the same rules, the same norms, the same values.
Businesses can go a long way in simply training their workforce about the signs and the red flags of human trafficking.
I've been thinking about this problem for a very long time.
We've been friends for a long time.
We host workshops and events for communities to learn about energy poverty, and how making even small updates to their homes like better insulation for windows and water heaters can go a long way to maximize efficiency.
This is the domain of quantum mechanics, and physicists and chemists have had a long time to try and get used to it.
I'll take you quickly through these works, because I can't explain them for too long.
So, to cut a long story short, we've explored this alternative.
And our ancestors, for as long as there's been recorded history, have looked at the night sky and pondered the nature of our existence.
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize [winner] in economics, once wrote: "Productivity is not everything, but in the long run, it is almost everything."
I had to start thinking about them, and it had been privilege that had kept it invisible to me for so long.
(Not When She Does It.)" (Laughter) Now, I will say, just to remind the men in the audience, these data were collected over a really long period of time, so I don't want listeners to say, "Hmm, OK, I think I'll do the dishes tonight."
These data were collected over a really long period of time.
But, in recent years, at the time of this conversation, they had nothing but long periods of drought, and then flash flooding, and then more drought.
And we've come a long way in the last 60 years.
Weidmann was due to be executed at the crack of dawn, as was customary at the time, but his executioner was new to the job, and he'd underestimated how long it would take him to prepare.
If we take a bigger leap back in history, we'll see that for as long as there have been public judicial executions and beheadings, there have been the crowds to see them.
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