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And I don't pretend anything else.
I've decided that what I can't and won't do anymore is pretend I have the answers when I don't.
China's political model will never supplant electoral democracy, because unlike the latter, it doesn't pretend to be universal.
Do I sit here and pretend like I don't exist?"
Now to explain how this works, I want you all to pretend that you are participants in a study designed to stress you out.
We just push it aside and put it in a corner and pretend it's not there and hope it'll fix itself.
But right now, depression is society's deep cut that we're content to put a Band-Aid over and pretend it's not there.
Technology has this extraordinary capacity to both instantiate and continue all of our most extraordinary, often hidden desires and biases and encoding them into the world, but it also writes them down so that we can see them, so that we can't pretend they don't exist anymore.
YR: This phrase is now etched into my mind clearer than the pin number to my bank card, so I can pretend I speak Chinese fluently.
The sun made the leaves glow like stained glass, and if it weren't for the path we were following, we could almost pretend we were the first human beings to ever walk that land.
The good news is that for many of us, the fascination with gross stuff doesn't exactly go away, we just kind of pretend like it's not there.
Pretend that you're an alien race that doesn't know anything about Earth biology or Earth neuroscience or Earth intelligence, but you have amazing telescopes and you're able to watch the Earth, and you have amazingly long lives, so you're able to watch the Earth over millions, even billions of years.
We all pretend to have an idol; we all pretend to be an idol for someone else, but actually we are all impostors, a bit like a man on the street who appears totally cool and indifferent, while he has actually anticipated and calculated so that all eyes are on him.
And I want you to pretend that Jesse Owens is in that race.
You see, researchers have coined this term "color blindness" to describe a learned behavior where we pretend that we don't notice race.
They pretend, they behave, as if they believed that every country was an island that existed quite happily, independently of all the others on its own little planet in its own little solar system.
When I start to pretend that what I'm seeing isn't impacting me, and isn't changing my heart, then I get in trouble.
And if you win a poetry slam, you can call yourself a slam champion and pretend you're a wrestler, and if you lose a poetry slam you can say, "Oh, what?
Just because the people in power tend to pretend to be victims we don’t need to succumb to that system.
You can't pretend to shoot guns.
Next, pretend imaginary people are real.
But rather than avoid the mess, pretend it's not there, we've tried to make that our strength.
Who the hell was I to go to New York City and pretend to be a writer?
And you got to pretend you were cool and smart and swank, too.
With all that money to be made, are we surprised that some in the higher education business have begun to engage in false advertising, in bait and switch ... in exploiting the very ignorance that they pretend to educate?
And it's obviously not the case that there was a liberal box to check on the application, but it speaks to a very real insecurity in these places that you have to pretend to be somebody you're not to get past these various social barriers.
That way you could listen to cool music while you pretend to look for a job and you're really just chattin' with your pals.
Let's pretend that our government supported an oil-based economy, while discouraging more sustainable forms of energy, knowing all the while that the result would be pollution, war and rising costs.
So I want you to pretend it's the end of next year.
So this year's kind of done, but I want you to pretend it's the end of next year, and it has been an absolutely amazing year for you and the people you care about.
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