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And when life throws up one of its nasty surprises, as it will, more than once, when a doctor comes into my room wearing a grave expression, or a car suddenly veers in front of mine on the freeway, I know, in my bones, that it's the time I've spent going nowhere that is going to sustain me much more than all the time I've spent racing around to Bhutan or Easter Island.
She names the twins after the camp's commanders to gain their favor, and feeds them with black tea because her milk cannot sustain them.
Because if we do not do something to fix the glaring economic inequities in our society, the pitchforks will come for us, for no free and open society can long sustain this kind of rising economic inequality.
We can't sustain suburbs, so let's design a building which gives the qualities of a house to each unit.
It means that you have to be recognized for using the greatness in you to achieve and sustain extraordinary outcomes by engaging the greatness in others.
I believe that the only way we can sustain growth and prosperity in the West is if we learn to do more with less.
But operating this way makes it hard for them to sustain over the long term and exert leverage over the system, which leads to frustrated protesters dropping out, and even more corrupt politics.
We sustain psychological injuries even more often than we do physical ones, injuries like failure or rejection or loneliness.
What if we could create personal microbiomes that would scan our skins, repair damaged tissue and sustain our bodies?
And if this boy's emotions sustain through the potential boredom of living for millions of years, he might become extremely lonely and sad, knowing he has and always will outlive everyone he has ever loved.
There is a trade-off between body size and the number of neurons a primate, including us, can sustain.
Cooking frees up time and provides more energy than if we ate food stuffs raw and so we can sustain brains with 86 billion densely packed neurons.
Our ability to create and sustain economic growth is the defining challenge of our time.
It might sound like a funny question, but we have to ask ourselves: Is there any 21st-century skill more important than being able to sustain coherent, confident conversation?"
For example, if you could build a perpetual motion machine that included humans as part of its perfectly efficient system, it could sustain life indefinitely.
See, you might be thinking to yourself, how can we possibly persuade world leaders to sustain a focus on global issues?
There is tremendous sustaining revenue under this long tail to sustain open projects like ours, but also to sustain this new emergence of on-demand publishers, like QOOP, who produced these two books.
The types of microbes that they used were called hydrogenotrophs, and with these hydrogenotrophs, you can create a virtuous carbon cycle that would sustain life onboard a spacecraft.
So where can we find a group of willing volunteers to go out and smash their heads into each other on a regular basis and sustain concussion?
Alone, a single drop of water can't do much, but when many drops come together, they can sustain life on our planet.
It was a huge bonding experience with the other members on the team, but it is difficult to sustain.
I have also learned how the negative stereotypes and images of blacks in our culture literally create and sustain both institutional and individual discrimination.
Community members often love their libraries, and they don't want us to not be able to sustain the services we offer.
It is calories which sustain us.
And that hierarchy of human value requires stories about those groups of people in order to sustain itself.
Support women smallholders, realize higher yields, avoid deforestation and sustain the life-giving power of forests.
She hand-rolls country cigarettes to sustain our family.
Third thing on my checklist: relations with friendlies that can sustain the society.
We really have to ask the question: Can the world sustain that number of automobiles?
Very much like highways on earth, these space highways can only take up a maximum capacity of traffic to sustain space-safe operations.
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