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Over the course of this year that we spent flying back and forth, we realized we had fallen in love with the place.

So they formed a White House task force, and they spent about three years arguing about who takes how much responsibility in the global supply chain.

I estimated that, just today, across the world, we spent about 106 average world lifetimes teaching people how to calculate by hand.

And he spent the last 10 years of his life in two places only, the slums and the state prison, where he spent the last two years before he ended up sitting on this rock there.

But we also spent many hours in the basements of the United Nations, trying to work with governments to make them understand what was going on so far away from land that few of us had ever even imagined that these creatures existed.

About 20 years ago, I was in South Africa, working with the parties in that conflict, and I had an extra month, so I spent some time living with several groups of San Bushmen.

When I think back to my childhood, a good part of which I spent, after being born here in Chicago, I spent in Europe.

Maybe you've seen a dog like this one before, or you've spent time running on a beach like this one, and that further evokes thoughts and memories of a past vacation, past times to the beach, times spent running around with other dogs.

I spent too much time listening to those brain cells in a dark room, by myself.

My passion, and what I've spent the last few years dedicated to researching, is the collaborative behaviors and trust-mechanics inherent in these systems.

I spent some years watching how good intentions for community empowerment, that were supposed to be there to support the community and empower it, actually left people in the same, if not worse, position that they were in before.

And I know a little bit about these issues, because, for many years, I spent a long time in the non-profit industrial complex, and I'm a recovering executive director, two years clean.

And so then I went back into the research and spent the next couple of years really trying to understand what they, the whole-hearted, what choices they were making, and what we are doing with vulnerability.

The presence of camels, mountains, desert wells and springs took me back to the year I spent wandering the Sinai Desert.

And then there was the language, the rhythmic cadence of it, reminding me of evenings spent listening to Bedouin elders recite hours-long narrative poems entirely from memory.

We had to figure out how to lower the radiation dose, and we have spent the last three years making modifications to every aspect of the imaging system to allow this.

You probably also know that she has spent 15 of the last 20 years imprisoned for her efforts to bring about democracy.

But they spent three and a half million dollars in the 2000 Super Bowl to air that ad, even though, at the time, they only had a million dollars in annual revenue.

They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover the fact that there is nothing here for them."

And so plastic comes from oil, so I phoned up BP and spent a good half an hour trying to convince the PR office at BP that it would be fantastic for them if they flew me to an oil rig and let me have a jug of oil.

I've spent my life as a warrior, working for women's issues, working on political campaigns, being an activist for the environment.

I spent a week at sea on a research vessel.

Now as you know, a great deal of time is spent, in this country and around the world, inside the climate debate, on the question of, "What if the IPC scientists are all wrong?"

Literally hundreds of elevator rides were spent with me alone stuffing the pump into my Spanx, hoping the doors wouldn't open unexpectedly.

Because, despite their problems, I had spent my whole life training my lungs, and I was not particularly enthusiastic about giving them up.

And so we spent a good deal of our time indicating that.

That's what Wired magazine spent on this.

And because walking was one of the first things I lost, I spent most of that year thinking about this most elemental of human acts.

I've spent most of my professional life researching media and entertainment and its impact on people's lives.

So I stepped back from the workforce, and I spent a year at home with my wife and four young children.

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