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I think the mathematician and philosopher thought that, in that way, his students might focus more on the voice, and his words and its meaning, rather than the visual of him speaking.

I am part of an international community of people who choose to, rather than passively accepting that our bodies are and probably always will be big, we actively choose to flourish in these bodies as they are today.

Ever since then, every court case, educational policy, reform, has been an attempt to retrofit the design, rather than just stopping and acknowledging: we've had it all wrong from the beginning.

Because as machines take our jobs and do them more efficiently, soon the only work left for us humans will be the kind of work that must be done beautifully rather than efficiently.

So this pattern emerges, and it's a rather nice pattern.

So rather than all of our uncertainties slowing us down and requiring institutions like banks, our governments, our corporations, we can actually harness all of that collective uncertainty and use it to collaborate and exchange more and faster and more open.

And if we can do that, if we can approach the great vastness of all that we do not know, and then, rather than fear uncertainty, maybe we can greet it with a sense of wonder.

And I always feel rather smug then.

Rather than broadening the frame to include African-American women, the court simply tossed their case completely out of court.

We have to be willing to bear witness, to bear witness to the often painful realities that we would just rather not confront, the everyday violence and humiliation that many black women have had to face, black women across color, age, gender expression, sexuality and ability.

So, when the USDA finally acknowledged that it was plants, rather than animals, that made people healthy, they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid, to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, along with more carbs.

Rather than spending their lives eating grass, for which their stomachs were designed, they were forced to eat soy and corn.

So a bubble up rather than a trickle down.

So again, if you deal with those who are the most impacted, everybody has an opportunity to benefit from that, rather than dealing with the folks who are not as impacted, and expecting it to trickle down.

I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible.

And there's a way in which we've been kind of transformed into celebrities rather than people who are trying to solve a problem.

I have allowed my wife to do all of the emotional labor of prying open the lines of communication when I'd rather clam up and run away.

Silence can also be rather uncomfortable.

So that's the third thing, is that they're different, they're utility and they are going to be something we work with rather than against.

We're working with these rather than against them.

Either I've been invited because I'm a token, which really isn't about me, but rather, about a box someone needed to check off.

And rather than say, "I don't have time to do x, y or z," she'd say, "I don't do x, y or z because it's not a priority."

So it's time we make a promise of a world in which we've broken the stranglehold that nuclear weapons have on our imaginations; in which we invest in the creative solutions that come from working backward from the future we desperately want, rather than plodding forward from a present that brings all of the mental models and biases of the past with it.

Reframing love as something I get to create with someone I admire, rather than something that just happens to me without my control or consent, is empowering.

Can you try to be a friend to your child so that they can trust you and want to share with you their experiences, rather than having to seek it somewhere else?

These two little girls with their superpowers are showing the way forward towards a society that we need to build together, a society that includes and supports, rather than rejects our kids.

In this immensity of life and biodiversity, we occupy a rather unremarkable position.

Rather than bring nature into our laboratories and interrogate it there, we need to bring our science into the majestic laboratory that is nature, and there, with our modern technological armamentarium, interrogate every new form of life we find, and any new biological attribute that we may find.

Once, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea ..." As a scientist and a teacher, I like to paraphrase this to read that we scientists need to teach our students to long for the endless immensity of the sea that is our ignorance.

In fact, rather than working from predefined recipes, Watson had to use reasoning to overcome his human opponents.

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