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I just remember the sound was so heavy and so very shocking.
However, the greater fear is that once we surrender, blend in and begin to disappear one after the other, the more normal this false conformity will look, the less shocking this oppression will feel.
It's a shocking truth that we only see mirror images of ourselves, and we only see ourselves in freeze-frame photographic images that capture a mere fraction of the time that we live.
And I think this is the most shocking image in my talk today.
Now that statistic is quite shocking.
In my entire life I had seen in black and white, and suddenly everything was in shocking Technicolor.
So, shocking stuff.
And this was all actually quite shocking to me, because prior to this moment, I had prided myself on having absolutely no regrets.
My friend Maria Stephan's book talks a lot about violent and nonviolent struggle, and there are some shocking data.
They can be shocking or silly or soulful.
Look, we all know the shocking numbers.
And supermarkets, I find this is very shocking, it's very, very attractive to walk along a supermarket.
Well, I was a professor in my mid-20s when I first heard those shocking facts and the scientist in me wanted to know why and how.
So the teacher rings up the parents, and says, "Very shocking story from little Billy today.
No. What we find in Afghanistan is a judiciary that is weak and corrupt, a very limited civil society which is largely ineffective, a media which is beginning to get onto its feet but a government that's deeply unpopular, perceived as being deeply corrupt, and security that is shocking, security that's terrible.
So I went home, and I did a little research, and I found some very shocking statistics.
The shocking part about it is that to avoid being infected with trachoma, all you have to do is wash your face: no medicine, no pills, no injections.
So after seeing these shocking statistics, I thought to myself, "Okay, even if I'm not just doing it for myself and the fact that I don't want to bathe, I at least need to do it to try to save the world."
I feel like it's really good news, and it's so shocking, I don't like saying it, because I think people won't believe me.
And they were competitive about this: "You pommies, your rates of heart disease are shocking."
And for the economists out there, you may be interested to know I actually made a pretty predictable income, which was shocking to me, given I had no regular customers, but pretty much 60 bucks on a Tuesday, 90 bucks on a Friday.
Just as I was starting to get used to my new life, I received a shocking phone call.
It's shocking to realize that only 28 percent of American adults have even a very basic level of science literacy, and this was tested by asking simple questions like, "Did humans and dinosaurs inhabit the Earth at the same time?" and "What proportion of the Earth is covered in water?"
To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
With that scare, I got busy changing my diet radically, adding and subtracting things most of you would find almost assuredly shocking.
Behind every window and door frame, you'll see a small child peering back at you, and while Makoko seems to be packed with people, what's more shocking is actually the amount of children pouring out of every building.
And that was also shocking, because suddenly, I realized, as the captain said to me, that I had been crazy to choose to go through pirate waters on a container ship.
But then the really shocking question occurred to me: If he could die, could it happen to me too?
So what these two clips show is not just the devastating consequence of the disease, but they also tell us something about the shocking pace of the disease, because in just 18 months, a fit adult man has been rendered wheelchair- and respirator-dependent.
I mean, this is a story which I think for a lot of the techies in this room is the single most shocking thing that they have heard in the last few months.
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