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And so while I was in the DRC, I spent a lot of time talking to people about condoms, including Damien.
And when my daughter, Katie, turned 13, she and I spent two weeks at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where Katie learned for the first time that she was powerful and brave.
And she then spent a lot of time researching to find the best cancer center in the world to get her subsequent care.
And to show how big it goes, this is a drug called Tamiflu, which governments around the world have spent billions and billions of dollars on.
Like, when you see that progress bar, it sort of locks your attention in a tractor beam, and it turns the experience of waiting into this exciting narrative that you're seeing unfold in front of you: that somehow, this time you've spent waiting in frustration for the computer to do something, has been reconceptualized as: "Progress!
Let me give you just one example of the former terrorist I spent time with in the West Bank.
Microblog boomed in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled.
I spent a lot of time in those early years weeping silently in dressing rooms.
Half as much money was spent on this Norden bombsight as was spent on the most famous military-industrial project of the modern era.
So to the folks from Google, thank you. (Applause) So I spent a lot of time in this building.
So Google has pushed the pendulum of technology to the absolute limit of commoditization, to the point where people who spent their whole lives developing really valuable, compelling entertainment and really valuable, compelling journalism and really valuable, compelling novels, can't make money doing it anymore.
It's a perfectly wonderful way to spent a weekend afternoon, watching a football game in a stadium.
In fact, I spent about 8- to 10,000 hours of my life playing "Civilization," which is a long time I probably should have spent studying.
This is the number of hours that I spent on logistics, from getting permits to rallying participants and finding venues.
That is amount of money that I spent personally on Red Bull and Diet Coke to stay awake during this movement.
If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.
I got this tattoo because I spent most of my 20s living outside the country and traveling.
It meant you spent longer inhaling chemicals, longer up to your wrist.
My father learned the magic, spent his time following light.
But the magical thing here is that is time that would have had to have been spent anyways learning the language.
It worked brilliantly from the first test on, and it had the same resolution as systems which cost 60,000 euros, and we only spent 1,500 euros for the system, not including my salary, but that wouldn't add so much on its own.
He spent most of his career working with juvenile delinquents, and in his work he noticed that most of his clients read comic books.
I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement.
I've spent the last year researching and writing about this subject.
Viktor Frankl was a German psychiatrist who'd spent five years in a Nazi concentration camp.
They spent time with the elderly, chatted to their healthcare providers and their caregivers.
My older brother Panaki Bose spent hours of his time explaining atoms to me when I barely understood basic algebra.
So we've spent more time on focusing on why we should not talk to others than finding out how we talk to others.
Money that was spent on drug enforcement was redirected to health and rehabilitation programs.
And these scientists simply documented all the various tasks that these CEOs engaged in and how much time they spent engaging in making decisions related to these tasks.
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