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And as you can see, for most of recent history, except for a brief period, we have consistently spent more than we take in.

I've spent a lot of the last few years really depressed about this, until this year, I learned something that I felt really excited about.

I've spent a lot of the fall talking to the three major organizations that survey American political attitudes: Pew Research, the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, and the most important but the least known is the American National Election Studies group that is the world's longest, most respected poll of political attitudes.

So I went off to the States, as many people do if they're going to do research, and I spent a few years in Pittsburgh.

When you were little, I bet you spent time enjoying the pleasure of primitive art.

I've spent most of my career working for Fortune 500 companies including Johnson & Johnson, Leo Burnett and The Washington Post.

And he also created a magical atmosphere of trust between us by confessing his secret, which was that, as a very young boy starting at age four, he had been savagely and repeatedly physically abused by his stepfather, and the abuse had gotten so bad that he had had to drop out of school in eighth grade, even though he was very smart, and he'd spent almost 20 years rebuilding his life.

If you had told me that this smart, funny, sensitive man who adored me would one day dictate whether or not I wore makeup, how short my skirts were, where I lived, what jobs I took, who my friends were and where I spent Christmas, I would have laughed at you, because there was not a hint of violence or control or anger in Conor at the beginning.

And at the time, getting married wasn't really something I spent a lot of time thinking about.

I actually ran out, I spent too much money on my road trip for the savings that I had to take my year off, so I had to, I went to Seattle and I spent some time with friends working on a really neat project.

International organizations have invested a lot in Albania during these 20 years, not all of it well spent.

And I'm making the size of the bubble proportional to the amount of money that countries spent on students.

So you can see two countries spent their money very differently, and actually how they spent their money matters a lot more than how much they invest in education.

We spent a lot less on education, about 35 percent less on education.

But I also hope, because I think the people in this room can literally change the world, I hope you take some of this stuff away with you, and when you have an opportunity to be influential, that you try to get some heavy-duty money spent on some of these ideas.

Now, many brilliant economists have spent their entire lives working on this question, and as a field we've made a tremendous amount of headway and we understand a lot about this.

He told us that, in fact, two out of every three dollars of our petrodollars that we spent, the taxpayers' money, was wasted or stolen.

Let me pause here to point out to you all that 24 billion dollars of our money has been spent on this.

Well, I spent a lot of my early career trying to figure out how insect wings generate enough force to keep the flies in the air.

I spent the last few years trying to answer that question, traveling around, meeting families, talking to scholars, experts ranging from elite peace negotiators to Warren Buffett's bankers to the Green Berets.

My music career has been spent trying to encounter people on the Internet the way I could on the box.

Yet we have spent only a tiny fraction of the money on ocean exploration that we've spent on space exploration.

But we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity.

But I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it go to the needy."

It's 150,000 millennials all across Uganda, young people armed with 2G phones, an SMS social network exposing government corruption and demanding to know what's in the budget and how their money is being spent.

CA: And so, did it work out on the math pretty much straight away, that an hour spent watching "House of Cards," say, was more profitable to you than an hour spent watching someone else's licensed content?

In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.

percent — for those of you doing the numbers, you know that's 132 Americans — gave 60 percent of the Super PAC money spent in the cycle we have just seen ending.

Pink's squad and another squad spent their entire day outside the wire.

We'd spent 90 minutes together, and he was now known to me.

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