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And I worry sometimes that we spend so much time celebrating amazing things that hardly anybody can do, that we've convinced ourselves those are the only things worth celebrating.

Well, researchers spend billions of your tax dollars trying to figure that out.

I would spend hours and hours listening to the little beetle rolling a huge ball of dung, and while at it, I heard a variety of environmental sounds.

Whereas I'm a field person, I get panic attacks if I have to spend too many hours in a lab with a white coat on.

I used to spend a lot of time on commercial fishing boats, and I remember fishermen saying they can tell when a basking shark has been caught in a net, because it leaves a black slime behind.

How many of you spend a thousand dollars a year on lotteries?

Low-income people spend a lot more than a thousand on lotteries.

We know we'll do it next year, but today let us go and spend.

It's a lot more fun to spend now.

Next January comes and people might feel that if they save more, they have to spend less, and that's painful.

One last question: How many of you feel comfortable that as you're planning for retirement you have a really solid plan when you're going to retire, when you're going to claim Social Security benefits, what lifestyle to expect, how much to spend every month so you're not going to run out of money?

And I could spend the rest of my time, which is getting very limited, going through this litany of concerns about the ocean, but I want to end on a more positive note.

I spend most of my time in jails, in prisons, on death row.

I spend most of my time in very low-income communities in the projects and places where there's a great deal of hopelessness.

And sometimes when I would go and spend time with her, it would be difficult to get her time and attention.

If you live in the state of California, for example, there's a referendum coming up this spring where actually there's going to be an effort to redirect some of the money we spend on the politics of punishment.

Hollywood would spend millions of dollars to do a small urban corridor for a movie because they'd have to do it manually.

But how would you like it if you never knew from one day to the next if you were going to spend it striding around like a vivid god, your shoulders in the clouds, or sitting down there amidst the wallpaper staring straight ahead with your little plastic face?

And the feeling that no one is listening to me make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

We spend an evening on the social network instead of going to the pub with friends.

If you do the right studies, you can look at how much you as an individual spend on your own health care, plotted over your lifetime.

Secondly, make it clear from the beginning that either you have no money at all or that you would rather spend money with your attorney fighting the troll than actually giving them the money.

We might spend time with people we don't even like because it's somehow interesting.

So I want to talk today about money and happiness, which are two things a lot of us spend a lot of our time thinking about, either trying to earn them or trying to increase them.

So instead of spending it the way you usually spend it, maybe if you spent it differently, that might work a little bit better.

Before I tell you the ways you can spend it that will make you happier, let's think about the ways we usually spend it that don't, in fact, make us happier.

What happens when people win the lottery is, one, they spend all the money and go into debt; and two, all of their friends and everyone they've ever met find them and bug them for money.

And we wondered what would happen if we made people spend more of their money on others.

Let's have some people do what they usually do, spend money on themselves, and let's make some people give money away, and measure their happiness and see if, in fact, they get happier.

One of the envelopes had things in it that said, "By 5pm today, spend this money on yourself."

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