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But why do people want me to direct traffic, when I would much rather go fishing?

The first way is that they're actually able to resolve small detail in the context of clutter, and though that means being able to read the fine print on a prescription rather than using magnifier glasses, you can actually do it with just your eyesight.

This actually leads me to a rather counterintuitive finding in the literature about technology and the brain.

And then you have the emerging world cities, with a mixed variety of vehicles, mixed land-use patterns, also rather dispersed but often with a very dense urban core.

Wouldn't you rather test to see if those cancer drugs you're going to take are going to work on your cancer?

I also hope that they will use their unique combination of values and languages and cultures and skills to help create a world where identities are no longer used to alienate what looks different, but rather, to bring together people.

But the archaeologist Lawrence Keeley, looking at casualty rates among contemporary hunter-gatherers, which is our best source of evidence about this way of life, has shown a rather different conclusion.

If the death rate in tribal warfare had prevailed during the 20th century, there would have been two billion deaths rather than 100 million.

Today, we look at capital punishment as evidence of how low our behavior can sink, rather than how high our standards have risen.

The journey from a small weather station on the north coast of Siberia up to my final starting point, the edge of the pack ice, the coast of the Arctic Ocean, took about five hours, and if anyone watched fearless Felix Baumgartner going up, rather than just coming down, you'll appreciate the sense of apprehension, as I sat in a helicopter thundering north, and the sense, I think if anything, of impending doom.

And it seems to me, therefore, that the doing, you know, to try to experience, to engage, to endeavor, rather than to watch and to wonder, that's where the real meat of life is to be found, the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days.

But anyone who looks at language realizes that this is a rather silly conceit, that language, rather, emerges from human minds interacting from one another.

For example, in polite requests, if someone says, "If you could pass the guacamole, that would be awesome," we know exactly what he means, even though that's a rather bizarre concept being expressed.

Or if a dinner guest after the meal pulled out his wallet and offered to pay you for the meal, that would be rather awkward as well.

In that case, the consequences are rather severe.

So this is a rather fraught situation.

You'll notice that the building is rather austere.

The monkeys are rather aggressive, as are the apple trees.

So I can say this: It's not the hundreds of reasons why one can't be an artist, but rather, the one reason one must be that makes us artists.

I'm rather here today to confess that we as a nation took the wrong choice, made the wrong decision.

Rather, it was a form of political action in a context when the city budget I had available after being elected amounted to zero comma something.

Would you want your child to become a teacher rather than a lawyer?

So rather than reinvent the wheel, I began studying other professions to see if anybody had.

Rather, they're released in very specific locations and they act on specific synapses to change the flow of information in the brain.

So slowly I began to realize that what started out as a rather playful attempt to try to annoy fruit flies might actually have some relevance to a human psychiatric disorder.

Rather, it's acting to control two different functions on two different circuits, so the reason there are two things wrong with our dopamine receptor flies is that the same receptor is controlling two different functions in two different regions of the brain.

And so think of that as a lucky break of good timing, rather than a general framework.

I know which future I would rather be living in.

These grants not only allowed less wealthy men to conduct research, but they also encouraged thinking outside the box, rather than just trying to solve one pre-set question.

That's actually becoming a rather unpopular term these days, and people feel that, for whatever reason, it's politically better to use the term behavioral disorders and to talk about these as disorders of behavior.

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