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Why not sheer nothingness?
We have sheer nothingness on one side, and we have this vision of a reality that encompasses every conceivable world at the other extreme: the fullest possible reality, nothingness, the simplest possible reality.
Some pieces bowl you over by their grace and others by the sheer audacity it took to bring them here.
So within a couple of minutes, and the piece isn't even finished yet, I experienced two very contrasting characters: beautiful melancholy and sheer energy.
It used to grow on the mainland, but through the sheer pressures of urbanization has been pushed out of the mainland, and we've managed to bring it back from the brink of extinction by developing in vitro plants which are now growing in the wild.
Because of its sheer size, it was meant to be lording over lesser plants, so God didn't like this arrogance, uprooted it, and planted it upside down, hence its particular shape.
It's a complete plant, and in fact, the sheer size of these trees is hiding a massive potential, not only for the pharma, nutrition, and the cosmetic industry.
That I'm standing here telling this story is proof that we all can accomplish great things, through ambition, through passion, through sheer stubbornness, by refusing to quit, that if you dream something hard enough, as Sting said, it does indeed come to pass.
The South pioneered frugal innovation out of sheer necessity.
So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an external electronic device, right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and amongst their biggest fears was the sheer mortification that one of these might ring at some inopportune moment.
And you're probably wondering how a women's rights organization was able to do this in communities which had previously opposed our sheer existence.
Some of it, of course, is just the sheer magnitude of almost everything about them.
And what's lost on so many people is the sheer scale of which we're discussing.
Let it really sink in, the sheer scope and size of it all.
So however we do it ... whether it's sheer willpower, whether it's the flip of a card or whether it's a guilt trip from a German teenager, all of us, from time to time, need to sit down and try and play the unplayable piano.
That difference in velocity creates sheer stresses that repeatedly stretch and contract the proteins until eventually they snap back into their native shapes and stay there.
But this is no easy task, and the sheer number of languages in the world, as well as the increasing interaction between the people who speak them, will only continue to spur greater advances in automatic translation.
That's because of the sheer volume of possibilities.
The sheer size of the Universe guarantees that some of its random elements will fall into specific arrangements, and because we evolved to notice patterns and pick out signals among the noise, we are often tempted to find intentional meaning where there may not be any.
Finally, it's all you can think about, and out of sheer desperation, you go on a hunt for a bathroom until "ahh."
One of the best predictors is the sheer volume of compositions that they generate.
The sheer size of the icebergs is humbling.
The thing that makes El Cap so intimidating is the sheer scale of the wall.
Many of the moves I knew through sheer repetition.
It would be easy to conclude that institutional trust isn't working because we are fed up with the sheer audacity of dishonest elites, but what's happening now runs deeper than the rampant questioning of the size and structure of institutions.
He was strongly in favor of doing research out of sheer curiosity, to arrive at a deeper understanding of the world.
Only research done out of sheer curiosity, with no application in mind, could have given us the discovery of the electron and X-rays.
There was no internet, you couldn't Google information, so we made those first steps out of sheer intuition.
What makes meningitis so dangerous compared to other diseases is the sheer speed with which it invades a person’s body.
Of course, there's the color and the beauty of it, but there was also just the sheer oneness of it, as if it wasn't hundreds of fish but a single entity with a single collective mind that was making decisions.
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