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And he was what you'd call a teratologist: he looked at all of the monstrosities and mutations to find rules and laws, rather than looking at the norms.
And Patrick chose to think, rather than to not think.
Rather, this hatred stems from a particular incident that happened nine years ago.
But historically, it's been a place people run from, rather than come back to.
It is why your mouth forms an "o" that is not a gasp, but rather, the beginning of, "Oh.
I think that's rather creepy, actually.
And they sold quickly, and became rather popular.
Some of us will have smelt something rather pleasant, perhaps somebody's perfume.
We can’t currently contain enough ions in a trap to make advanced computations, but one possible solution might be to connect many smaller traps that communicate with each other via photons rather than trying to create one big trap.
And I'm just incredibly happy to see the news that Witness is going to be opening up a Web portal to enable users of digital cameras and camera phones to send in their recordings over the Internet, rather than just hand-carrying the videotape.
To never fall too far in love with your wins but rather continue to proactively seek out what might kill you next.
He's just a rather intimidating figure.
My father was one of those legions of fathers who, I swear, would rather drive through an alligator-infested swamp than actually ask someone for help getting back to the road.
Rather than rushing into things, Hamlet becomes consumed with the awful machinations of thinking itself.
He'd rather do that all day than talk to the client paying for the house that might even give him restrictions on what to do.
Rather than backfiring frames such as disaster and cost, we can reframe climate as being really about human health, for instance, with plant-based delicious burgers, good for you and good for the climate.
HPV causes contact infections, which means the virus stays in the cells near the point of infection rather than spreading throughout the whole body.
A positive test doesn’t mean the person has cervical cancer, but rather that there are irregular cells in the cervix that could develop into cancer in the future.
And for the first time in history, you start to hear people referring to this or that artist as being a genius, rather than having a genius.
Rather amazing.
We give it to them, rather than we earn it through our performance.
Paying attention to what we do, to how we do it, and, perhaps most importantly, to the structure of the organizations within which we work, so as to make sure that it enables us and other people to develop wisdom rather than having it suppressed.
And when permafrost thaws and drains, it makes it possible for microbes to come in and rather quickly decompose all this carbon, with the potential to release hundreds of billions of metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases.
Well, if my husband were up here right now, he would tell you that I interview babies, because he would rather not say that his wife experiments on children.
Succession to the Great Khan didn't automatically go to the eldest son, but rather allowed brothers, uncles and cousins to vie for leadership with senior widows acting as regents for their sons.
And then Brennan found himself at a conference in Hawaii, of all places, and noticed something rather intriguing.
You're learning how to play with somebody, rather than against her.
Now, we can use the tools of the 21st century to try and observe what is, rather than ask what should be, believed.
This is the first of two rather extraordinary photographs I'm going to show you today.
I know a man who would rather die than tell another man that they're hurting.
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