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For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.
With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.
It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.
That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.
Nearly held captive in the South.
But by the time this Great Migration was over, nearly half were living all over the rest of the country.
So this ended up being nearly a complete redistribution of part of an entire people.
It had not happened in 12 generations of enslavement that preceded nearly a century of Jim Crow.
You nearly fall with one leg, then you catch yourself with the other.
So somehow, for nearly two million years, we are killing animals without any weapons.
Nearly every year for more than a hundred years ... it looked like this in the summer.
So that really got my attention, and we started to work on this nearly around the clock, because I thought, "Well, we don't know what the target is.
Christianity, of course, takes a massive lion's share of the population, with nearly 160 million.
The second largest group, with nearly 30 million, is the one described as non-religious or secular.
And so I made this thing in nearly the same way as you make a computer chip.
This is how I was when I returned from the hospital after nearly four months.
By the end of this year, there'll be nearly a billion people on this planet that actively use social networking sites.
But when our species arose about 200,000 years ago, sometime after that we quickly walked out of Africa and spread around the entire world, occupying nearly every habitat on Earth.
There are lots and lots of ways of measuring time, but a really bizarre base 60 system known as hours and minutes and seconds is nearly universal around the world.
On June 23, 2000, a ship named the Treasure sank off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of fuel, which polluted the habitats of nearly half the entire world population of African penguins.
And soon, nearly 20,000 penguins were covered with this toxic oil.
And we know from follow-up studies that they have lived just as long as never-oiled penguins, and bred nearly as successfully.
The average American is nearly 20 times richer than the average Chinese by the 1970s.
I bet Harry Beck wouldn't have known what a user interface was, but that's really what he designed and he really took that challenge and broke it down to three principles that I think can be applied in nearly any design problem.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's nearly time for tea.
But I learned it's nearly impossible to create a new hybrid mushroom.
And all sorts of people, moving up to the First World War and between the wars, tried to solve this problem, and nearly everybody came up short.
So of course, it took time, and I was nearly 40, and I decided it's time to start as an artist.
The first floor held nearly 10,000 pounds of garbage, and that included the better part of a Dodge Caravan, cut into chunks with a reciprocating saw.
I lived nearly two years without heat, woke up out of a dead sleep multiple times to gunshots, was attacked by a pack of wild dogs and ripped my kitchen cabinets from an abandoned school as they were actively tearing that school down.
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