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And it's rather important because I had done 15 years of research before it, so I had a backlog, so it was easy.
And the reason I show this car in actually a rather ugly slide is just again to tell you the kind of story that characterized a little bit of my life.
They'd rather prefer denying the illness, which is why it's not so wise to inform them if they don't ask.
Rather, they're taken as primitive, and you build up the world from there.
First, we started training our officers in teams rather than sending them one or two at a time to the state training academy.
They'd rather just opt out and engage in volunteerism.
There are the naive who believe that good things just happen and the cynical who believe that bad things just happen, the fortunate and unfortunate alike who think that their lot is simply what they deserve rather than the eminently alterable result of a prior arrangement, an inherited allocation, of power.
So for sure, the Fez River Rehabilitation will keep on changing and adapting to the sociopolitical landscape of the city, but we strongly believe that by reimagining the role and the agency of the architect, we have set up the core idea of the project into motion; that is, to transform the river from sewage to public space for all, thereby making sure that the city of Fez will remain a living city for its inhabitants rather than a mummified heritage.
It's potentially a path toward a drug that might address a root cause rather than an individual symptom, and we hope very much that this work by many scientists over many years will be successful.
And that's why designers, more and more, are working on behaviors rather than on objects.
Why is there a world, why are we in it, and why is there something rather than nothing at all?
So this question, why is there something rather than nothing, this sublime question, was posed rather late in intellectual history.
It was towards the end of the 17th century, the philosopher Leibniz who asked it, a very smart guy, Leibniz, who invented the calculus independently of Isaac Newton, at about the same time, but for Leibniz, who asked why is there something rather than nothing, this was not a great mystery.
And my professor at Columbia, Sidney Morgenbesser, a great philosophical wag, when I said to him, "Professor Morgenbesser, why is there something rather than nothing?"
He teetered permanently on the verge of rage, rather like me, as you see.
He worked nights at Vauxhall Motors in Luton and demanded total silence throughout the house, so that when we came home from school at 3:30 in the afternoon, we would huddle beside the TV, and rather like safe-crackers, we would twiddle with the volume control knob on the TV so it was almost inaudible.
I'd been studying the art of Burning Man for several years, for an exhibition I curated at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, and what fascinates me the most isn't the quality of the work here, which is actually rather high, it's why people come out here into the desert again and again to get their hands dirty and make in our increasingly digital age.
Rather than "pain," say, "another rather interesting, foreign sensation."
And let's make it look down here, rather than to the far reaches of the universe.
We've been around as Homo sapiens — that's a rather generous definition, sapiens — for perhaps a quarter of a million years, a quarter of a million.
And then you change the photograph he's shooting at, and it suddenly becomes rather grim and maybe less accessible.
Now, apparently that's not going to last for very long, or at least the population growth is supposed to decline in the future, and the best projections we have is that the long-run growth is going to be closer to one to two percent rather than four to five percent.
I really hate the fact that people took us as property rather than children.
The case is rather convincing, I have to say, but I want to bring you back to the last 16 months and to Edward Snowden for a few questions, if you don't mind.
He tried not to ever have his personal life subject to examination, and so I think calling him Snowden is a way of just identifying him as this important historical actor rather than trying to personalize him in a way that might distract attention from the substance.
Because it allows them to think of their future rather than the nightmare of their past.
It allows them to think of hope rather than hatred.
Rather, as centers of excellence, where refugees can triumph over their trauma and train for the day that they can go home as agents of positive change and social transformation.
Rather, he watched from within as his body shut down, limb by limb, muscle by muscle.
For many people, perhaps most, paralysis is an unspeakable horror, but my father's experience losing every system of his body was not an experience of feeling trapped, but rather of turning the psyche inwards, dimming down the external chatter, facing the recesses of his own mind, and in that place, falling in love with life and body anew.
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