Opportunity
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You know, one of the intense pleasures of travel and one of the delights of ethnographic research is the
opportunity
to live amongst those who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants.
I can see a business
opportunity
for Kerala, helping fix the health system in the United States.
It tries to create a sense that this is a historic
opportunity
to do something really extraordinary.
But I'm trying to suggest that there is a huge
opportunity
open to us that was never open to us before.
And the reason this is interesting is that it gives us an
opportunity
to prove whether or not these exotic objects really exist.
And second, it gives us the
opportunity
to understand how these supermassive black holes interact with their environment, and to understand how they affect the formation and evolution of the galaxies which they reside in.
Now, the Euro was a newly born currency of great
opportunity
for business, and, of course, for investment.
Each one of those is an
opportunity
to do something about it; it's an
opportunity
for the technology to change.
I've got the
opportunity
now to show you what I'm going to be doing in the future.
So, I'd very much like to see us begin to really seize this as an
opportunity
to get this into our medical records.
Maybe the last mile problem really should be thought of as the last mile
opportunity.
That's what I'm talking about as a last mile
opportunity.
I think this tells us there is an
opportunity.
And the really simple argument I want to make tonight, the really straightforward argument is this: That if we combine the right political philosophy, the right political thinking, with the incredible information revolution that has taken place, and that all of you know so much more about than I do, I think there's an incredible
opportunity
to actually remake politics, remake government, remake public services, and achieve what's up on that slide, which is a big increase in our well-being.
You can see what crime is committed where, and you have the
opportunity
to hold your police force to account.
Now, we're got a huge revolution in understanding of why people behave in the way that they do, and a great
opportunity
to put that knowledge and information to greater use.
So, one day I had the
opportunity
to meet one of these guys, and I said, "How do you paint like that?
And, all of a sudden, India was this land of
opportunity.
Our Fred Astaires, our Gene Kellys our Michael Jacksons are right at our fingertips, and may not have that opportunity, except for us.
So, if you've been involved in that at all, I just wanted to say: Whatever you've been doing, whether you've just been chanting, "Raw data now!" or you've been putting government or scientific data online, I just wanted to take this
opportunity
to say: Thank you very much, and we have only just started!
DR: I think there's a real
opportunity
to engage in a discussion of why we live in cities.
In some countries all of those things happen at once, like Sierra Leone a few years ago, and push enormous parts ... about a billion people in the world, in fact, as we know, live on the edge, live in situations where they don't have any
opportunity
and are usually even destitute.
But if corruption creeps in and people don't have the
opportunity
to have that protection of the rule of law, then if you can use violence, if you can use violence with impunity, you can reach out and harvest the vulnerable into slavery.
Dumped without political participation, decent education, any kind of real
opportunity
in terms of economic lives, and then sentenced to generations of violence and prejudice and discrimination.
This is the greatest time there's ever been on this planet by any measure that you wish to choose: health, wealth, mobility, opportunity, declining rates of disease ... There's never been a time like this.
It's stuck in the present right now, but we have an amazing
opportunity.
I used it as an
opportunity
to walk away from the movement that I'd been a part of for eight years, the only identity, community and purpose that I'd really known for most of my life.
Now, I have two questions I would like to ask these people if I had the
opportunity
to do so.
This is an
opportunity
at real dialogue, and if you have stewardship and want to communicate, that dialogue is incredibly powerful.
They're saving us by redefining and re-imagining a future that defies and blurs accepted polarities, polarities we've taken for granted for a long time, like the ones between modernity and tradition, First World and Third World, oppression and
opportunity.
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