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Forty-eight governors competed, convincing 48 state legislatures to essentially raise standards for high schoolers so that they all take a college prep curriculum.
If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue; if you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow; and if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.
So raise your hand if you know someone in your immediate family or circle of friends who suffers from some form of mental illness.
And raise your hand if you think that basic research on fruit flies has anything to do with understanding mental illness in humans.
It does raise the question of, they're not going to have passenger pigeon parents to teach them how to be a passenger pigeon.
Raise your hand if you have a mobile in your pocket that does the same.
As anyone would, as they do this, they develop a sixth sense, a constant awareness about how what they do might affect their ability to raise money.
They become, in the words of "The X-Files," shape-shifters, as they constantly adjust their views in light of what they know will help them to raise money, not on issues one to 10, but on issues 11 to 1,000.
If we deregulate these guys, how are we going to raise money from them?"
And they didn't raise their hands, but they took me out to dinner and showed me what they could do with expense reports.
How do I raise the self-esteem of a child and his academic achievement at the same time?
We created an institution called Instituto Terra, and we built a big environmental project to raise money everywhere.
You know, we provide health services and people are always fussing at me about, you know, because I'm all into accountability and data and all of that good stuff, but we do health services, and I have to raise a lot of money.
And I had to because I had to raise the money.
Now, those programs can make sense if they in fact induce new location decisions, and the way they can make sense is, by creating more and better jobs, they raise employment rates, raise per capita earnings of state residents.
Raise your hand if you're in your 20s.
Raise your hands if that thought occurred to you.
Come on, raise your hands.
Companies that have been studied for willful blindness can be asked questions like, "Are there issues at work that people are afraid to raise?"
Now, I'm not suggesting we want to raise our babies in our stomach, but I am suggesting it's possible we might want to manage gastric secretion in the gut.
Alright, now raise your hand if your computer has ever crashed.
We participate in the Apps for Apes program Orangutan Outreach, and we use iPads to help stimulate and enrich the animals, and also help raise awareness for these critically endangered animals.
In order to raise the historical awareness of this fact, the government has planted mulberry trees.
I decide consciously to raise my arm, and the damn thing goes up.
One and the same event, my conscious decision to raise my arm has a level of description where it has all of these touchy-feely spiritual qualities.
Do you look at the current generation of kids coming up and think they're too coddled, they don't know what they've got, we're going to raise a generation of privileged ... RB: No, I think if you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm.
In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if you've experienced relatively little stress.
I'm convinced that in 30 years, when we look back on today and on how we raise and slaughter billions of animals to make our hamburgers and our handbags, we'll see this as being wasteful and indeed crazy.
There is another way, because essentially, animal products are just collections of tissues, and right now we breed and raise highly complex animals only to create products that are made of relatively simple tissues.
Raise your right hand.
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