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That if you wear your socks on the outside rather than the inside, you're much more likely to survive and not slip and fall.
I am addicted to adventure, and as a young boy, I would rather look outside the window at the birds in the trees and the sky than looking at that two-dimensional chalky blackboard where time stands still and even sometimes dies.
The other problem is regulations, or rather, the lack of good regulation.
So, I can press a button and manipulate it rather easily.
He spent five years in solitary, and I met him because I gave a speech at San Quentin, and he's articulate and he's rather easy on the eyes because he's buff.
But rather than tell you the whole story about these two movements, I just want to share with you four key insights.
So this evolutionary foil safeguards the plant against these rather cute animals, and protects it and of course ensures its survival.
Now, antibiotics have been used for patients like this, but they've also been used rather frivolously in some instances, for treating someone with just a cold or the flu, which they might not have responded to an antibiotic, and they've also been used in large quantities sub-therapeutically, which means in small concentrations, to make chicken and hogs grow faster.
Now, you might think this is a rather dry and dull report.
One of the things I can do because I'm autistic — it's an ability rather than a disability — is I've got a very, very vivid imagination.
Get us to do things that leads to the support and perpetuation of the biota, rather than its destruction?
My colleague at work looks annoyed when I ask for an extension on a deadline, and my friend looks frustrated when I show up late for lunch because a meeting ran long, and at the end of the day, my husband looks disappointed because I'd rather go to bed than go to the movies.
Who would you rather be treated by? (Applause) Now, make no mistake — Western medicine is the most successful system of healing ever devised, but there's plenty of holes in it.
If the climate's going to change, let's have a climate that changes for the better rather than the worse.
We'd covered 35 marathons, we were only halfway, and we had a safety net, of course, of ski planes and satellite phones and live, 24-hour tracking beacons that didn't exist for Scott, but in hindsight, rather than making our lives easier, the safety net actually allowed us to cut things very fine indeed, to sail very close to our absolute limits as human beings.
The stucco on the walls of most of the buildings in Rome covers the scars; the scars of centuries of change as these structures have been adapted rather than being torn down.
Thankfully, there's a rather delicious bit of mathematics that we can use to help us out here, called optimal stopping theory.
These are algorithms that have learned how to do this from data rather than being programmed by hand.
Rather than showing you creating a medical diagnostic test, I'm going to show you a diagnostic test of car images, because that's something we can all understand.
He had the rather gloomy conclusion that humans will inevitably despoil any common pool resource in which people cannot be restrained from using it.
Therefore, it is all the more important to foster an altruistic motivation rather than a selfish one.
Rather, the opposite.
These particular people, rather than getting AK-47s, or weapons of mass destruction, or machetes, in the spirit of the warrior, have gone into the center, the heart of pain, of loss.
Their own personal security is not their end goal, and because of that, because, rather than worrying about security, because the transformation of suffering is their end goal, I actually believe they are creating real safety and a whole new idea of security.
Real security is hungering for connection rather than power.
The end goal will [be] becoming vulnerable, realizing the place of our connection to one another, rather than becoming secure, in control and alone.
Each new set of rulers viewed its contents as a threat rather than a source of pride.
It is rather revolting.
And ladies and gentlemen, what happened then was rather extraordinary: The community and the health workers, Peter, they sat down together and they put together a new plan for controlling Ebola in Lofa County.
Remember, this virus, this whole crisis, rather, started with one case, and is going to finish with one case.
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