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What I want to do today is spend some time talking about some stuff that's giving me a little bit of existential angst, for lack of a better word, over the past couple of years.

That's why we've made it our primary goal to spend a large sum of money on an advertising effort to help bring out and complicate the truth about coal.

But, if you spend, like, 90 percent of your daily capacity trying to succeed at work, of course there is nothing left to take care of all the other important aspects in your life, like your human relationships.

And I think few of us spend the day without eating bread in some form.

It's the hours we spend obsessing about tasks we didn't complete or stewing about tensions with a colleague, or anxiously worrying about the future, or second-guessing decisions we've made.

I'm sure that's how he wanted to spend the party.

I mean, what do your neurons spend most of their time thinking about?

And there will be and should be those who spend a lifetime pursuing a very highly defined area of inquiry.

While setting up this shot, people on average would spend eight to 10 minutes having a lunch.

I don't want them to spend their whole lives in poverty.

You were the better at spend and spend; I was the better at grubbing and heaping, But who was the better man in the end?

And the very first day that this fellow, John Allen, walked in, to spend a couple of days in there with all the plants and animals and bacteria that we'd put in there to hopefully keep him alive, the doctors were incredibly concerned that he was going to succumb to some dreadful toxin, or that his lungs were going to get choked with bacteria or something, fungus.

And this woodpile looks like the perfect place to spend the winter.

Give them permission, if you like, to spend their political capital and your financial capital, your national purse on saving the lives of millions of people.

Well, evolutionarily that might make sense, because we know cognitively what we are going to sound like so maybe we don't need to spend energy analyzing the signal.

In the case of nearsightedness, some research suggests that one reason it's becoming more common in some populations is that many people today, including most of us in this room, spend far more time reading, writing and engaging with various types of screen than we do outside, interacting with the world on a bigger scale.

If we had say, 50 billion dollars over the next four years to spend to do good in this world, where should we spend it?

So we have to ask ourselves, do we want to spend twice the amount on doing very little good?

Basically for the amount of money that we spend, we can do X amount of good in treatment, and 10 times as much good in prevention.

And so the real point, of course, is to say, do we want to spend a lot of money helping a little, 100 years from now, a fairly rich Dutch guy?

In 1970, the developed world decided we were going to spend twice as much as we did, right now, than in 1970, on the developing world.

But the point, of course, is still to say, if you get another 100 billion dollars, we still want to spend that in the best possible way, don't we?

Our societies now spend two, three, four percent of GDP to invest systematically in new discovery, in science, in technology, to fuel the pipeline of brilliant inventions which illuminate gatherings like this.

When it comes to exercise, store all the equipment that you need for a certain activity together, charged and ready, so you don't spend energy looking for it.

And a significant minority of those 500 million people like to spend some of their leisure time and spare cash sleeping with prostitutes, sticking 50 Euro notes up their nose and employing illegal migrant laborers.

Now, there was one question in that form that we didn't spend hours soul-searching about, and that question was: "If you have a child who then turns out to be gay, how would you feel?" (Laughter) And we were able to say, "I think we'll be fine."

We rope in the husbands of our friends and we rope in our own male friends, and they advise us on what we might do and they also spend time with Steven.

Also is the knowledge that right now we spend about in the first 25 years of our lives learning, then there is another 40 years that's really reserved for working.

And they came up with a very good engineering solution, which was to spend six billion pounds building completely new tracks from London to the coast, and knocking about 40 minutes off a three-and-half-hour journey time.

Adam Smith talks about 18th century America, where the prohibition against visible displays of wealth was so great, it was almost a block in the economy in New England, because even wealthy farmers could find nothing to spend their money on without incurring the displeasure of their neighbors.

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