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The theory states that a Mars-sized body struck the young Earth, and the Moon formed from the debris disk around the planet.

In 2011, just before an earthquake struck the east coast of Japan, nearby researchers recorded surprisingly high concentrations of the radioactive isotope pair: radon and thoron.

But by the end of his life, I think he had struck a balance that we as a country can learn from.

Lord Sun shot back, and his quetzal-feathered arrows struck Lord Dawn in the face, turning him to frost.

It goes like this, "Comedy is the clash of one point of view colliding with another, one sensibility with another, high with low, East with West, light with dark, old with the young; a collision of two worldviews of two civilizations; and like two pieces of flint being struck together, a life-saving spark is given off and with this spark, you can light a fire."

One thing that struck me, after this incident, was that a space like that holds so many deleted memories of the city.

You're either repelled by it, or you're struck with a lightning bolt of excitement.

I was struck immediately by the kindness and the gentleness in her face, and I asked her to tell me her story.

My name is Herman, and I've always been struck by how the most important, impactful, tsunami-like changes to our culture and our society always come from those things that we least think are going to have that impact.

I'm struck by how social media has amplified our many differences, and really made us more who we are in the presence of other people.

And that really struck me about my father, in the sense that he had such belief that somehow, doing these things giving in the way that he gave, that something good would come out of it, even in the middle of a war, there was a war with Pakistan at one point, and the construction stopped totally and he kept working, because he felt, "Well when the war is done they'll need this building."

Rising in the late rainy season, Chak Ek’ aimed his spear and struck K’awiil, causing damage to the food and a period of chaos in the social order until K’awiil was reborn.

And that's when it struck me.

But in the nine years before Drake struck oil, in 1859, at least five-sixths of that whale oil-illuminating market disappeared, thanks to fatal competitors, chiefly oil and gas made from coal, to which the whalers had not been paying attention.

And so she really struck a chord in me.

But then, in the first hour, disaster struck.

He was so struck by her grace, that he failed to notice Death lurking by her feet.

But I've been struck with a parallel in how people often talk about capitalism today and how they talked about the monarchy 200 years ago, just after the French Revolution and the restoration of the monarchy in France.

What struck me was this: She had felt sorry for me even before she saw me.

Are you struck by a new thought?

But, lightning struck rather slowly in our country in those days, so, it was like about a half an hour for a lightning call to come through.

And I was struck by just how wonderful it felt, and how contagious that feeling was.

And so we struck up a deal.

But, it struck me how much this dive, these deep dives, was like a space mission.

That struck a chord, and I said, "That's true."

As someone who has spent his entire career trying to be invisible standing in front of an audience is a cross between an out-of-body experience and a deer caught in the headlights, so please forgive me for violating one of the TED commandments by relying on words on paper, and I only hope I'm not struck by lightning bolts before I'm done.

The last one there on the far right was the meteor that struck 66 million years ago and did in the dinosaurs.

And with its huge pectoral fins and eyes still very visible, it struck me as sort of a crucifixion, if you will.

And this was an animal that was struck by a ship in Nova Scotia, Canada being towed in, where they did a necropsy to confirm the cause of death, which was indeed a ship strike.

I was so struck by this comment that from then on, I started to offer all the participants those seven sodas, and I asked them, "How many choices are these?"

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