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Raise your left hand.
This short psychological intervention decreases the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues in the future, preparing Omar to get an education, join the workforce, raise a family and beyond.
Now, if the American healthcare system would focus a lot more on measuring quality, and raise quality just to the level of average OECD, it would save the American people 500 billion U.S. dollars a year.
To give me an idea of how many of you here may find what I'm about to tell you of practical value, let me ask you please to raise your hands: Who here is either over 65 years old or hopes to live past age 65 or has parents or grandparents who did live or have lived past 65, raise your hands please.
So we have to raise some money.
We use the contract to raise money from socially motivated investors.
In the U.S. alone, the industrial Internet could raise average income by 25 to 40 percent over the next 15 years, boosting growth to rates we haven't seen in a long time, and adding between 10 and 15 trillion dollars to global GDP.
So he started encouraging the women to raise their hands more, and it still didn't work.
Please raise your hand if you've been told you're too aggressive at work.
If you're a woman, please raise your hand if you've ever been told you're too aggressive at work.
Again, I'm going to turn to the men in the audience: Please raise your hand if you've been asked, how do you do it all?
Please raise your hand if you've been asked how you do it all?
Now raise your hand if any of this is sounding familiar to you, from your part of the world.
In fear, the upper white of the eyes are revealed as the eyebrows raise and the mouth stretches open, while surprise looks similar, but with rounded eyebrows and relaxed lips.
So what I'd like to do is have you raise your hand if you've ever heard a heterosexual couple having sex.
Now raise your hand if the man was making more noise than the woman.
And in Norway, where men have an automatic three month's paternity leave, but they lose it if they decide not to take it, a high government official told me that companies are starting to look at prospective male employees and raise an eyebrow if they didn't in fact take their leave when they had kids.
They learn that if you just stare at a student and raise your eyebrow about a quarter of an inch, you don't have to say a word because they know that that means that you want more.
If you raise the level of your eyes a little more you go, "I see you, oh my God you are here, how are you, I can help you, I can design for you a new toothbrush, new toilet brush," something like that.
From this level, the more you can raise this angle of view, the more you will be important for the society.
That's why every morning, now, because you are a good mutant, you will raise your angle of view.
When I was born, there was really only one book about how to raise your children, and it was written by Dr. Spock.
That is what it means to raise kids in an age when they are economically worthless but emotionally priceless.
So I knew that I had no way to win, and knowing that I had no way to win made me seriously consider for a while just quitting the game and moving to the country to raise corgis.
Seriously, if you have a calculator with you, raise your hand.
If you think you know your birth day, raise your hand.
Now, I do not raise this issue to complain or in any way to elicit any kind of sympathy.
But if I asked all of you in this room, who here has paid money to go to a cinema and be entertained by a Hollywood war movie, most of you would probably raise your hands.
The first thing they told the doctor was, "We want to see her, and we are going to take her home and love her, and raise her to the best of our abilities."
I dreamt I'd become a writer of songs, that I would sing those songs to vast numbers of people all over the world, that I would be paid extravagant amounts of money, that I'd become famous, that I'd marry a beautiful woman, have children, raise a family, buy a big house in the country, keep dogs, grow wine, have rooms full of Grammy Awards, platinum discs, and what have you.
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