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I had spent 15 years in Anglican schools, so I had had enough hymnals and crosses to last me a lifetime.
I spent a lot of money on this hardware.
Basically, we spent months doing this with Mario.
Four years earlier, when I was one, after the Chernobyl accident, the rain came down black, and my sister's hair fell out in clumps, and I spent nine months in the hospital.
What had happened was that they realized that there were organisms out there that had already solved the problems that they had spent their careers trying to solve.
I spent some time telling the college G.P. about what I perceived to be the real problem: anxiety, low self-worth, fears about the future, and was met with bored indifference until I mentioned the voice, upon which he dropped his pen, swung round and began to question me with a show of real interest.
So we've spent a lot of time and effort in turning the data into stories to be able to tell, what's the state of the engine, how are the tires degrading, what's the situation with fuel consumption?
She said, "Everything is fine, but once, I spent a whole night asking and trying to translate the meaning of the word 'toqborni' for him."
The poor woman had mistakenly told him "toqborni," and then spent the whole night trying to explain it to him.
Derek's going to L.A. soon, and it's a milestone, because it means that Derek and I will have spent over 100 hours on long-haul flights together, which is quite interesting, isn't it Derek?
So we spent five weeks rebuilding the church.
If you're an average sort of person, 36 percent of your life will be spent asleep, which means that if you live to 90, then 32 years will have been spent entirely asleep.
And if I wanted to paint on people, well, I was a little bit embarrassed to bring people down into my studio and show them that I spent my days in a basement putting paint on toast.
They also asked, "How much time have you spent helping out friends, neighbors, people in your community?"
People who spent time caring for others showed absolutely no stress-related increase in dying.
When I was a young man, I spent six years of wild adventure in the tropics working as an investigative journalist in some of the most bewitching parts of the world.
So the fearsome power of this little insect was apparent to me from a very young age, and it's one reason why I spent five years as a journalist trying to understand, why has malaria been such a horrible scourge for all of us for so very long?
But for myself, in the past, I've spent the last 20 years studying human behavior from a rather unorthodox way: picking pockets.
I was 18 years old and bored, and I picked up a book in the library on bees and I spent the night reading it.
He spent every waking moment thinking about it, and just days before he was to have his day in court, he woke up in the morning, doubled over in pain, and died of a stress-related heart attack.
They spent 10, 20, 30 years in prison for these crimes, and now DNA testing has proven that they are actually innocent.
I actually spent about a year in my home in my underwear, coding, like Linus [Torvalds], in that picture before.
He's spent his entire career using a sling to defend his flock against lions and wolves.
And this metaphor of membership in the greater human family is the way that children also describe the money that they invest in these sacrificial buffaloes that are thought to carry people's soul from here to the afterlife, and children will explain that they will invest the money in this because they want to repay their parents the debt for all of the years their parents spent investing and caring for them.
And also quantitative data, so what was the average length of their profile, how much time was spent between messages?
To get to the moon, NASA spent around 180 billion dollars in today's money, or four percent of the federal budget.
And in my job at Twitter, I actually spent a little bit of time working with authors and storytellers as well, helping to expand out the bounds of what people are experimenting with.
When I was growing up in the '70s, the typical American spent one tenth of their income, American family, on transportation.
As a result, he spent just four days in hospice, which I'm sure, as you all know, is a pretty typical outcome, and we never said goodbye because we were unprepared for the end.
After having spent more than a decade understanding, studying, and trying to convince policymakers and donors about what was wrong with Africa's agricultural markets, I decided it was time to do something about it.
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