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From the first days and weeks of life, babies prefer to hear human sounds, rather than just sounds in the environment.
They prefer to look at people rather than at things, and even as they're looking at people, they look at people's eyes, because the eye is the window to the other person's experiences, so much so that they even prefer to look at people who are looking at them rather than people who are looking away.
And I like to exhibit these paintings in the exhibition halls without labels, and then I ask people, "Which one do you prefer?"
That means we have to resist the neurobiological drive, which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves, and it means we have to seek out people with different backgrounds, different disciplines, different ways of thinking and different experience, and find ways to engage with them.
I prefer men's clothes and comfortable shoes.
And I don't know about you, but I prefer to dine.
Now which pie would we prefer, and which pie do we think people who are hungry would prefer?
Do you want beautiful beaches, forests and lakes, or would you prefer to rearrange some of those atoms with the computers, enabling virtual experiences?
I prefer you to see people moving, and you're going, "Whoa, what was that?" (Music) JT: If I give enough movement in the sculpture, and the actor moves their head, you feel like it's alive.
If you prefer this kind of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, those three objects are very good at supporting the lowest rungs in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
The other problem is they're right in the ozone layer, and I'd prefer them above the ozone layer.
When we tested females using blinking LED lights, we discovered they prefer males who give longer-lasting flashes.
And when I sleep, I really prefer to do it while spooning.
Nowadays, most scientists prefer to work inside, so they don't build physical models so much as to make computer simulations.
Again, the research shows that we prefer voices which are rich, smooth, warm, like hot chocolate.
So a couple of years ago, I thought I would take some time out and speak to that gigantic database and ask it, why do some people prefer one country more than another?
Basically what it told me was — (Laughter) (Applause) — the kinds of countries we prefer are good countries.
Or do I, on the other hand, prefer the idea of walking around the world with my head held high thinking, "Yeah, I'm proud to come from a good country"?
But what he found was, these categories mattered, so when he later gave the subjects money, they would prefer to give the money to members of their own group than members of the other group.
They test the babies own food preferences, and babies typically prefer the graham crackers.
They tend to prefer the puppet who has the same food tastes that they have, and worse, they actually prefer puppets who punish the puppet with the different food taste.
They'd rather prefer denying the illness, which is why it's not so wise to inform them if they don't ask.
For me, I kind of prefer the opposite.
Because obviously the British public, I think, would prefer William to Charles on the throne.
So war is an even less efficient way, so I tend to prefer progressive taxation, but of course, history — (Laughter) — history will invent its own best ways, and it will probably involve a combination of all of these.
It's going to be people in their 40s and 60s and 80s who find they prefer a little marijuana to that drink in the evening or the sleeping pill or that it helps with their arthritis or diabetes or maybe helps spice up a long-term marriage.
From a psychiatrist in New York City: "Pretty soon we will have to disclose whether we prefer cats to dogs, what model of car we drive, and what toilet paper we use."
We prefer white.
Seventy percent of white people taking that test prefer white.
Fifty percent of black people taking that test prefer white.
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