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With wars going on and on, the average time a refugee will spend in exile is 17 years.

Only his cousin survived, and the two of them walked for seven months — this is boys like him — chased and pursued by wild animals and armed gangs, and they finally made it to refugee camps where they found safety, and he would spend the next seven years in Kenya in a refugee camp.

So as businesspeople, as consumers, as patients, as citizens, we have a responsibility, I think, to spend more time focusing on our critical thinking skills.

And so what we need to do instead is spend a little bit more time on things like the humanities and sociology, and the social sciences, rhetoric, philosophy, ethics, because they give us context that is so important for big data, and because they help us become better critical thinkers.

Well, why did I spend a decade doing other stuff for the poor?

None of these studies found that people spend more on drinking or smoking or that people work less.

If I'm going to go buy some ice cream, do I really want to spend eight dollars to go buy the ice cream?

So little did we know that we would spend almost an entire year painting that river, together with Geovani and Robinho and Vitor, who lived nearby.

It would lose some of the magic that we had learned about that if you go somewhere and you spend time there, you can let the project grow organically and have a life of its own.

It took me a while, but eventually I refused to serve in the West Bank and had to spend time in jail.

I was lucky enough to spend my last year, my fifth year, in Rome as a student.

I missed them, but I did spend that extraordinary year in Rome, and it's a place that is never far from my mind.

Computers right now can do the things that humans spend most of their time being paid to do, so now's the time to start thinking about how we're going to adjust our social structures and economic structures to be aware of this new reality.

But on the other hand, if those kids are black, they are four times more likely to be removed, they spend longer periods of time in foster care, and it's harder to find them a stable foster placement.

Think of the iPhone 5, 6, then 7, 8. Companies in the West spend billions of dollars investing in R&D, and use tons of natural resources to create ever more complex products, to differentiate their brands from competition, and they charge customers more money for new features.

And so you spend your days fighting things off, defending your territory and becoming more entrenched in your fundamental thinking.

In six years, I've had the extraordinary privilege through V-Day, a global movement against [violence against] women, to travel probably to 60 countries, and spend a great deal of time in different portions.

Because when you spend a lot of time going from place to place, country to country, and city to city, the degree to which women, for example, are violated, and the epidemic of it, and the kind of ordinariness of it, is so devastating to one's soul that you have to take the time, or I have to take the time now, to process that.

Women usually used to spend, especially in the summer months, about six to seven hours a day carrying water.

So I spend a lot of time in deep conversation with the CEO and senior executives, and a lot of times those conversations turn to diversity and inclusion, which, of course, I'm always happy to talk about.

And since we spend one-third of our lives at work, what if we did that with people who didn't look like us?

As part of my job, I spend a lot of time in the greenhouse growing plants, and the reason for this is that monarchs are extremely picky eaters.

And you say, "I'm going to spend more time with the kids.

You spend a good part of the time crying, probably.

Spend an afternoon, spend a whole day, talk to anybody you want.

And it's no surprise that we feel that way, because according to the EPA, Americans spend 90 percent of their time indoors.

How is it that we spend more time taking care of our teeth than we do our minds?

So once a year, you can go home to your family, spend 30 days and then come on back."

They spend most of their time rehabilitating gibbons, but they also have to spend a lot of their time protecting their area from illegal logging that takes place on the side.

We need to spend time now to really protect our right to share this only with people that we want to share this with, because without this, we simply can't have a free society.

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