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Twenty-six precious lives were taken in my carriage alone, and I was almost one of them.
Nothing mattered other than I was a precious human life.
My children are the most precious thing to me, and the thought that I could be failing them in any way is intolerable.
And then with our kids, our precious kids, we spend so much time nudging, cajoling, hinting, helping, haggling, nagging as the case may be, to be sure they're not screwing up, not closing doors, not ruining their future, some hoped-for admission to a tiny handful of colleges that deny almost every applicant.
But if you look at what we've done, if you have the courage to really look at it, you'll see that not only do our kids think their worth comes from grades and scores, but that when we live right up inside their precious developing minds all the time, like our very own version of the movie "Being John Malkovich," we send our children the message: "Hey kid, I don't think you can actually achieve any of this without me."
And so, instead of being obsessed with grades and scores when our precious offspring come home from school, or we come home from work, we need to close our technology, put away our phones, and look them in the eye and let them see the joy that fills our faces when we see our child for the first time in a few hours.
In Nigeria, people carry their most precious belongings on their heads.
On the contrary: we are precious, each and every one of us.
So here's the thing: civility isn't bullshit, it's precious because it's the virtue that makes fundamental disagreement not only possible but even sometimes occasionally productive.
It's precious, but it's also really, really difficult.
Thanks to Henry, church property was seized; hospitals closed, and precious monastic libraries lost forever, all to enrich the Crown.
Life is both a precious, unfathomably beautiful gift, and it's impossible here, on the incarnational side of things.
This is precious data from humans, like stories, emotions and interactions that cannot be quantified.
So, I want you to picture this: you host a podcast, and you have to prove that the investment of precious public radio dollars in you is worth it.
Nature just cares about healthy organisms, and your precious ethnic features are expendable to that aim.
We are living on a precious jewel, and it's during our lifetime that we're moving off this planet.
It makes it possible for all of us to go out and do what we do in the world every single day, knowing that the most precious aspects of our lives are in good hands.
Silence is one of the most precious conditions for humans, because it allows us to feel the depth of our presence.
In these situations, sound can become our precious companion.
And indeed, when that precious beam of sunlight enters the hall, it bounces between the walls and strikes the Southeast corner, spot on.
My plan is to actually buy puts on the precious metal market, and then actually claim that I'm going to go out and get one.
The government is unable to take the risks required to open up this precious frontier.
And a witness can become precious, and their gaze most necessary, when violence passes silently, unseen and unheard.
And what he said was: treat your enemies as if they were precious jewels, because it's your enemies that build your tolerance and patience on the road to your enlightenment.
It's precious, and it's really easy to lose.
He said, when the lights went down and a Shakespeare play came on, for a few precious hours he could imagine himself back in Prince Hal's time.
What are we going to do about this, our precious land?
We were evolved in an era where it wasn't in the interests of people at the age of most people at this conference, like myself, to live much longer, because we were using up the precious resources which were better deployed towards the children and those caring for them.
It kills seven million people every year, it costs five trillion dollars to the world economy and, worst, it robs us of our most precious gift, the years in our lives: six months of life expectancy in my hometown of Paris and up to three, four, five years in parts of India and China.
So that drop is incredibly precious to us.
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