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My personal belief is that, rather than having a small, elite force of highly trained government agents here to protect us all, we're much better off having average and ordinary citizens approaching this problem as a group and seeing what we can do.
The issue here is how do we get a partnership that involves government donors, the private sector and ordinary African people taking charge of their own lives?
And that packet of photons, that bullet, will travel at the speed of light, and again, a million times faster than an ordinary bullet.
And I see that we, ordinary people, can do what Aung San Suu Kyi and Ghandi and Mandela did.
And you don't have to understand what the circles and boxes and arrows mean to see that this is a far more complicated way of working than is supported by ordinary version control systems.
Bao Yongxiu: "My mother tells me to come home and get married, but if I marry now, before I have fully developed myself, I can only marry an ordinary worker, so I'm not in a rush."
The idea is, when you're short of specialized health care professionals, use whoever is available in the community, train them to provide a range of health care interventions, and in these books I read inspiring examples, for example of how ordinary people had been trained to deliver babies, diagnose and treat early pneumonia, to great effect.
And it struck me that if you could train ordinary people to deliver such complex health care interventions, then perhaps they could also do the same with mental health care.
It empowers ordinary people to be more effective in caring for the health of others in their community, and in doing so, to become better guardians of their own health.
Still, today, armed with that knowledge that ordinary people in the community can be trained and, with sufficient supervision and support, can deliver a range of health care interventions effectively, perhaps that promise is within reach now.
And as you can see, it's not really accessible or understandable to an ordinary citizen that is trying to understand how the government is spending its resources.
Well, today I fuel a global organization that is fueled by those trips to the mailbox, fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media like never before to write and mail strangers letters when they need them most, but most of all, fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate, filled with the scriptings of ordinary people, strangers writing letters to other strangers not because they're ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee, but because they have found one another by way of letter-writing.
I want to talk about something really ordinary, just ordinary sand.
So what I've been trying to tell you today is things even as ordinary as a grain of sand can be truly extraordinary if you look closely and if you look from a different and a new point of view.
And then the Yemeni military got its act together, and ordinary people rose up against these guys and drove them out, and since then, most of their activities, most of their attacks have been directed at Yemenis.
It sounds so ordinary, and yet we spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.
One day you're living your ordinary life, you're planning to go to a party, you're taking your children to school, you're making a dentist appointment.
I learned about ordinary people who could be heroes.
Even in the midst of terrible destruction and death and chaos, I learned how ordinary people could help their neighbors, share food, raise their children, drag someone who's being sniped at from the middle of the road even though you yourself were endangering your life, helping people get into taxis who were injured to try to take them to hospitals.
They realize that ordinary students have extraordinary talents, and they personalize learning opportunities.
In the 1990s, my company created the long-distance AIDSRide bicycle journeys, and the 60 mile-long breast cancer three-day walks, and over the course of nine years, we had 182,000 ordinary heroes participate, and they raised a total of 581 million dollars.
And someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn't make a difference in the world.
Ordinary people stood and listened to that for two hours.
And so, the way I'm thinking of texting these days is that what we're seeing is a whole new way of writing that young people are developing, which they're using alongside their ordinary writing skills, and that means that they're able to do two things.
It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life has an inordinate impact on who you will become.
This is a little piano circuit right in here, and this is an ordinary paintbrush that I smashed it together with.
Just ordinary Play-Doh, nothing special.
Ordinary homeowners and renters have saved more than 250 million dollars on their energy bills, and we're just getting started.
And ordinary people can't interact with them.
And I think we really have to look at technologies that ordinary workers can interact with.
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