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In other words, China, unlike the Western states and most countries in the world, is shaped by its sense of civilization, its existence as a civilization-state, rather than as a nation-state.

So this is China, a civilization-state, rather than a nation-state.

And rather than send it, I decided to read it to them in person.

So in the studio, rather than drawing, we began to learn how to knit.

So rather than having 10 oysters, you have 10,000 oysters.

I'd much rather know whether you like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" rather than how old you are.

Now that was the advice that St. Benedict gave his rather startled followers in the fifth century.

But the values of democracy and the freedom of choice that is sweeping the Middle East at this moment in time is the best opportunity for the world, for the West and the East, to see stability and to see security and to see friendship and to see tolerance emerging from the Arab world, rather than the images of violence and terrorism.

And so fundamentally, rather than, for example, measuring content based on how many people are watching, this gives us the basic data for looking at engagement properties of content.

They connect people rather than dividing them.

I became more comfortable simply being who I am, rather than who I'm supposed to be or expected to be.

Only I think that he's rather loving it here, right?

I propose to you today that apathy as we think we know it doesn't actually exist; but rather, that people do care, but that we live in a world that actively discourages engagement by constantly putting obstacles and barriers in our way.

Suggesting that God expresses Himself or Herself through powerlessness, rather than power.

Indeed, it's rather small.

My own interest in this subject, and my passion for it, began rather accidentally.

Natalie Angier wrote a rather sad piece in the New Yorker, saying how lonely she felt as an atheist.

The reason the problem has gotten worse, rather than better, is because in 1998 we learned something crucial about the universe that we didn't know before.

He said, well, entropy increases because there are many, many more ways for the universe to be high entropy, rather than low entropy.

So Al, I actually think I'm rather good at branding.

His theory states that the act of smiling itself actually makes us feel better, rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good.

And we should be proud of where our power is coming from, rather than something we are necessarily ashamed of.

Because the DNA of the dinosaur that was trapped in the amber gave us some kind of clue that these tiny things could be trapped and be made to seem precious, rather than looking like nuts.

But the key part is trying to give back an extraordinary piece of landscape, rather than engulf it.

We treat these patients in a rather crude fashion at this point in time.

Well, it's a rather complex system, but let me try to explain it, maybe simplify it.

But you could go out someplace brand new, build a brand new apartment building, as long as the rules there were ones that facilitated construction rather than getting in the way.

I'm going to empower you, and I'm going to delegate to the lowest level, rather than the top.

But mostly ... to MAKE the future rather than wait for it.

Rather than try to figure them out, I'm going to ask you to consider for a moment the intuitions and the gut instincts that are going through your head and your heart as you look at them.

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