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But what most people don't know is that people have stood up to ISIS using nonviolent action.
We solved it with Leed Certification, where we said this is a different kind of building that stood for different values of environmental sustainability.
And then to the Capitol rotunda, where George Wallace had stood on its steps and proclaimed, "Segregation forever."
Time stood still for a long while, and all I could think and repeat in the chaos of my brain was: "You can forget about that partnership, Leila.
So, the first time I stood on top of the mountain and I looked at the neighborhood, I asked myself, how on earth will I convince all those owners to let me paint on their buildings?
I did notice the barren shops in Wagner, South Dakota, and the VFW gathering hall that stood in mockery of a community's dream to endure.
I wonder now if you would be less eager to deal it if I had stood with you when you merely felt it.
And so after what felt like an eternity, I accepted what I had to do and I stood up on the right foot, and it didn't slip, and so I didn't die, and that move marked the end of the hardest climbing.
About 20 or 30 people stood up and gave him an ovation.
And this guy stood up, and he took the hatchet, and the whole room winced as he brought the hatchet down on the robot's neck, and there was this half-joking, half-serious moment of silence in the room for this fallen robot.
We stood candidates for election in London, Scotland and Wales in May 2016.
We didn't wait any prerequisite amount of time for our courtship; we told each other the vulnerable truths up front: I am a transgender man, which means the F on my birth certificate should have stood for "False," instead of "Female."
So every two weeks for two years on payday he stood in front of his employees and he asked them to sacrifice their salaries, and it worked.
We went into that church and heard Rev. Moss preach, and after he did, this choir of gorgeous women, 100 women strong, stood up and began to sing.
Say, "Daughter, I stood there with the moment drawn on my face like a dagger, and flung it back at itself, slicing space for you."
The factor that stood out on the floors where help-seeking was common, where it was the norm, was there was just one nurse whose sole job it was to help other nurses on the unit.
For a moment, time stood still.
I can't tell you how many times I've stood in front of the Pyramids of Giza, and they leave me speechless.
Across from me stood an elderly lady with what seemed to be a 13-year-old girl lying beside her, with her head on the elderly lady's knees.
Maybe you've never stood up to give a TED Talk, but you've faced a big presentation at work, a sudden job loss, a big test, a heated conflict with a family member or friend.
It doesn't reflect what we stood for during our lives.
And so we played, and about a minute later, the girl next to him, in a white shirt and a pink skirt, stood up, put her hands on her hips, and said, "Yeah, why do you look so different?"
When the volunteer stood in front of just one door, people would avoid giving by going out the other door.
The researchers were out in the parking lot, and they were counting people as they came in and out of the store, and they noticed that when the volunteers stood in front of both doors, people stopped coming out of the store at all.
CA: Right, so just because someone voted for Trump, it's not blind adherence to everything that he's said or stood for.
Had Hillary Clinton gotten up and given that speech, not one Republican would have stood up to applaud.
And I read her everything that I could, and we laughed, and we loved it, and it was the most important stage that I've ever stood on, surrounded by family, by remnants of a people who were given as a dowry to a relentless war but still managed to make pearls of this life; by the ones who taught me to not only laugh, but to live in the face of death; who placed their hands across the sky, measuring the distance to the sun and saying, "Smile; I'm gonna meet you there."
A white gentleman stood in the audience and said that while he agreed with me that racism was important, we could never measure racism.
I stood by his side as his community isolated him, but our love never wavered.
One working elephant refused to set a log down into a hole where a dog was sleeping, while elephants encountering injured humans have sometimes stood guard and gently comforted them with their trunk.
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