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Would I brush off that comment, take a million pictures, and not be distracted for an instant from the pure joy of that moment, and by doing that, walk out with the shame that comes up for not standing up for myself, especially in front of my niece.
Another night it was Tristan who found out that there were pieces that make up explosives all around the house in which they were standing, and that in fact, explosives lay all the way between there and where they were about to head that night.
And I'm standing in my bathroom getting ready to step into the shower, and I could actually hear the dialogue inside of my body.
So if I'm standing near the basket and there's nobody near me, it's a good shot.
If I'm standing far away surrounded by defenders, that's generally a bad shot.
Where are the defenders standing?
I am standing here today and declaring that we can end child marriage in a generation.
Think even about this very talk that I'm giving now: I'm standing here in front of an audience of about 300 or 400 people, most of you are complete strangers to me.
That in the middle is my man Baakir, standing in front of BlackStar Books and Caffe, which he runs out of part of his house.
And when, two days later, I went the same route, and do you know, they were not in here, they were a little back further, the same young men, standing up there and holding the rifle and pointing to us to stop the car.
Now, I had my own moment of, let's say, remixing John Cage a couple of months ago when I was standing in front of the stove cooking lentils.
This forest was almost completely cleared for timber, agriculture, cattle ranching and the construction of cities, and today only seven percent of the Atlantic forest is still left standing.
And I grew up in a world believing that my worth and my standing was in keeping these rules that I'd known my whole life.
We lost standing in our community.
It wasn't easy standing in those lines trying to get into those male meetings.
And we can do it through unignorable acts of bravery, standing up for gender equality.
As another example of matching being more fundamental than counting, if I'm speaking to a packed auditorium, where every seat is taken and no one is standing, I know that there are the same number of chairs as people in the audience, even though I don't know how many there are of either.
No heroic triumph here, no brave individual standing up against impersonal institutions of a modern world, inspiring others to fight, or resourcefully outwitting and outgunning the massive army of the evil empire.
How are these people standing?
There is the gallery somewhere in the world, and there is a young girl, age 23, standing in the middle of the space.
So it's the three basic positions of the human body, sitting, standing and lying.
Imagine yourself standing on a beach, looking out over the ocean, waves crashing against the shore, blue as far as your eyes can see.
Tall buildings stay standing because they have steel frames and do not run and jump around in the jungle.
I'm standing here today on this boat in the middle of the ocean, and this couldn't be a better place to talk about the really, really important effect of my work.
But standing at the North Pole is difficult to do for very long because it's in the middle of an ocean, covered by constantly shifting, frozen sea ice.
The founders of this study would never in their wildest dreams have imagined that I would be standing here today, 75 years later, telling you that the study still continues.
An enduring myth says we use only 10% of our brain, the other 90% standing idly by for spare capacity.
One this choice is made, only three people remain standing.
And after the third person has sat down, the last person standing has no choice but to sit in the fourth chair.
Henri Poincaré, one of the father's of non-Euclidean geometry, believed that the existence of non-Euclidean geometry, dealing with the non-flat surfaces of hyperbolic and elliptical curvatures, proved that Euclidean geometry, the long standing geometry of flat surfaces, was not a universal truth, but rather one outcome of using one particular set of game rules.
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