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There is a parable Jesus told to help us understand the difference between those who'd rather not be bothered and those who take care of the other.
What this case revealed, among other things, was that the hippocampus was specifically involved in the consolidation of long-term declarative memory, such as the facts and concepts you need to remember for that test, rather than procedural memory, such as the finger movements you need to master for that recital.
Though certain theories were built on the idea of invisible atoms, some prominent scientists still believed them to be a useful fiction, rather than actual physical objects.
Rather, it provides narcissists a means to seek social status and attention.
And it was necessary for England to bring its affairs under its own control rather than Rome’s.
So I know that sounds ridiculous, but I know from experience that people will stay away from the library rather than face the authority of the librarian when they have late items.
And despite this, there is no place on Earth that I would rather be than the Arctic, especially as days lengthen and spring comes.
Rather than a path, Paul wrote, "I saw instead only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert.
Are you most worried about the quality of that time, rather than quantity?
I would rather leave these definitions to the philosophers and to the dictionary.
It ends up, I suppose, inflating our bubbles rather than bursting them.
So rather than encase all that variety and diversity in buildings of crushing sameness, we should have an architecture that honors the full range of the urban experience.
So I thought rather than get up and give any type of recipe for success or highlight reel, I would share my recipe for avoiding self-destruction, and certainly self-paralysis.
Researchers competed with each other because the ecosystem was designed to reward competition rather than to alleviate suffering.
Just before they entered their teens, our kids stopped us in our tracks and said, "You have to stop worrying about making a difference, making an impact, and instead, like us, learn to live with disease rather than fight it."
We adopted these practices in our own communities, and so it's no wonder why today the typical ideal vision of a professional black woman, especially in corporate America, tends to look like this, rather than like this.
He had a passion for flight, as you can kind of sense from that rather dubious 1970s office-leaving present.
Could I create a system that was beneficial to the earth and that used nature as a guide rather than something to be feared?
The trouble with Google filters, Facebook friends and reading the news by narrowcasting rather than broadcasting means that we're surrounded almost entirely by people like us whose views, whose opinions, whose prejudices, even, are just like ours.
What this means is the basic background experience of being a unified self is a rather fragile construction of the brain.
This kind of perception, which we call interoception, is rather overlooked.
Understanding this opens many new opportunities in psychiatry and neurology, because we can finally get at the mechanisms rather than just treating the symptoms in conditions like depression and schizophrenia.
But together, they had become a rather unlikely pairing, and they had produced the Federalist Papers, which offered a justification and, as I mentioned, a marketing plan for the Constitution, which had been wildly effective and wildly successful.
Rather, after you drink your morning coffee, your liver might use an olfactory receptor to chemically detect the change in concentration of a chemical floating through your bloodstream.
Loneliness is not a function of being alone, but rather, a function of how socially connected you are to those around you.
Our existing tax policy that privileges existing wealth rather than establishing new wealth is a choice.
But do think about selecting the right people rather than having people and then putting incentives in place.
We have a hierarchy of the city based on transit rather than the old armature of freeways.
I decided to make the solution simpler rather than more complicated.
We stop the van, we get out, we ask them if they would like a day's work rather than panhandling for the day.
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