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And yet, after all the attention they have garnered, and all the knowledge they have generated, as well as the lion's share of the funding, here we are standing [before] the same litany of intractable problems and many new challenges.

Outside my grandparents' house in the busy streets of India, I saw people standing in long lines under the hot sun filling buckets with water from a tap.

But had I not found a way out of the hatred and anger, I'm not sure I'd be standing here today.

Now, these familiar sensations are obviously the result of standing up in front of a thousand of you and giving a talk that might be streamed online to perhaps a million more.

The majority of the countries are standing still or moving backwards, and big countries like Brazil, India, China, Bangladesh have all seen significant declines.

People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read.

How long have they been standing in what positions?

So I'm convinced that we're standing on the verge of a renaissance of phage therapy.

If you would have told me a year ago that I would be standing on this stage talking to all of you wonderful people, I would have never believed it.

I reckon if you're standing to become the next president of the United States, you're probably pretty tied up most of the time, so I'm not altogether surprised that they don't all answer, but many do.

In the case of the Salvation Army, eliminating excuses just means standing in front of both doors, and sure enough, when they did this, donations rose.

Fifty-year-old African-American construction worker standing on a subway.

I mean, I think I'm standing on a stage, and you think you're sitting in a seat.

When someone is standing in front of you, mind, body and soul, saying "Witness me," it's impossible not to become keenly aware of your own humanity.

Standing on our own planet, you might think you’re just an observer of this violent ballet.

Let’s say this force is about 800 Newtons when you’re standing at sea level.

I deeply appreciate the fact that I am standing on the shoulders of those who have sacrificed even their lives to open the doors that I have walked through.

Say you're standing on a corner, a busy street corner.

So when I came to, the security guard was standing on top of me, and he said, "Next time you little punks steal something you can carry."

In this photograph, he's standing in what used to be a road.

I was standing there and thinking it was the first time in my life I witnessed that you could show someone you love them completely by letting go.

First and foremost, I would love it if this meeting could help to remind us that we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone.

Being merely civil means not pulling our punches, but at the same time, it means maybe not landing all those punches all at once, because the point of mere civility is to allow us to disagree, to disagree fundamentally, but to do so without denying or destroying the possibility of a common life tomorrow with the people that we think are standing in our way today.

I didn't do any of this, but I'm standing here on a TED stage taking all the credit for it.

You happen to be standing next to a switch that will divert the trolley onto a second track.

This time, you're standing on a bridge over the track as the runaway trolley approaches.

So that our frontline staff is standing there, talking to people about their fines, sometimes arguing with people about fines.

I'm actually not sure I've seen a conservative get a standing O at TED before that.

Like Jennifer Odem's sculpture of tables standing sentinel on the banks of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, guarding against the threat of post-Katrina floodwaters and rising up against adversity, we too have the ability to act affirmatively and affect positive change.

Black women are dying at alarming rates, and I used to be a classroom teacher, and I was at South Atlanta High School, and I remember standing in front of my classroom, and I remember a statistic that half of Black girls will get diabetes unless diet and levels of activity change.

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