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You're not meant to be static characters.
She worried that the violence we witnessed would overtake our lives; that our poverty meant that the neighbors with whom we lived and shared space would harm us.
And those two things together, right, one or the two, may not have been that important, but the two together meant that we had to develop safer drugs, and that serotonin seemed like a pretty good place to start.
The year we lost our inhibition and moved with courageous abandon was also the year we stared down barrels, sang of cranes in skies, ducked and parried, caught gold in hijab, collected death threats, knew ourselves as patriots, said, "We're 35 now, time we settled down and found a running mate," made road maps for infant joy, shamed nothing but fear, called ourselves fat and meant, of course, impeccable.
So the result is that for over 20 years, our two nations had a program that meant that one in 10 lightbulbs in the United States was essentially fueled by former Russian warheads.
They also assumed that she was meant to be held or placed lying down because her tiny feet don't allow her to be freestanding.
And it was long distance for the first couple of years, so for me that meant very high highs and very low lows.
I was also very interested in perhaps going into surgery and becoming a surgeon, because it meant working with my hands in a very focused, intense way.
They involve elaborate physiological mechanisms meant to protect us, that, when overstimulated, actually make us sick.
And when she told me this story later, she said she couldn't believe how good it made her feel, that it meant a lot to her.
Now, that may sound judgmental, but it's not meant to be.
I was 10 years old when I learned what the word "genocide" meant.
And they all took, as a unit of measure for their entire reality of what it meant to be virtuous and good, the single lifespan, from birth to death.
By that, the Buddha did not mean stupidity; he meant clinging to the illusion that life is static and predictable.
I did not know exactly what this word "feminist" meant, and I did not want Okoloma to know that I did not know.
They knew to encourage my sister and I to put a pretty nightgown on my mom, long after it mattered to her, but it sure meant a lot to us.
Because to be merely civil is to meet a low bar grudgingly, and that, again, makes sense, because civility is a virtue that's meant to help us disagree, and as Hobbes told us all those centuries ago, disagreeable means unpleasant for a reason.
That meant if I didn't fight, he would win by default.
I wanted to pass Steffi Graf's record, and that really meant a lot to me, and when I put my mind to something, I really am determined to reach it no matter what.
The whole road system is meant to be navigated with passive optical, or cameras, and so once you solve cameras or vision, then autonomy is solved.
So essentially it's meant to alleviate the heavy-duty trucking loads.
Months to a few years meant Paul was not likely to see her grow up.
Here I was in my final year of high school, just a few months from doing my end of high school exams and a few days from doing a set of exams we call here in Kenya "mocks," which are somehow meant to gauge how prepared one is for the final exams.
A.B. noticed that Prince was in the red zone, which meant he had to be hospitalized.
By focusing on the comedic trials and tribulations of a successful and lovable family that just happened to be African American, it took away those limiting qualifiers of race and helped to redefine what it meant to just be an American family, all through the power of story.
I'm going to give you four specific examples, I'm going to cover at the end about how a company called Silk tripled their sales; how an artist named Jeff Koons went from being a nobody to making a whole bunch of money and having a lot of impact; to how Frank Gehry redefined what it meant to be an architect.
They sold a billion dollars' worth of Aeron chairs by reinventing what it meant to sell a chair.
They didn't just slap a new ad on the product; they changed what it meant to build a paint product.
It was never meant to be considered an edible.
Over the years, we grew accustomed to this idea that straighter and longer hair meant better and more beautiful.
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