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It takes only one and a half days to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
It takes a lot of weight, and it follows the classical design rules.
But I'm just going to give you a little example about how one stages it in theater and then how one takes that same idea or story and moves it into cinema.
It takes practice to become a good arguer, in the sense of being able to benefit from losing, but fortunately, I've had many, many colleagues who have been willing to step up and provide that practice for me.
And cynics might say, you know, this is just a smart business guy doing what it takes to execute his particular style of marketing.
We've said that sleep is complicated and it takes 32 years of our life.
However, for one day a year, we truly stand united, and that's when the marathon takes place.
And also it takes them forever to act on cells.
And to this day, malaria takes a huge toll on our species.
But it takes time.
It takes money.
It takes resources.
It takes infrastructure.
It takes all the things that that cheap, easy-to-use bed net was not supposed to be.
So they vibrate the flower, they sonicate it, and that releases the pollen in this efficient swoosh, and the pollen gathers all over the fuzzy bee's body, and she takes it home as food.
But maintaining this herd takes a major toll on our planet.
This takes millions of cells and expands them into billions.
It is where cell culture takes place.
And if someone of the older generation says, well, our government takes care of us, and it's up to their government to take care of them, they're just not willing to take the hypothetical seriously.
I remember I was talking with a midwife who said, "Well, you see, the problem is it takes longer to do the paperwork than to deliver the baby."
This program takes a shape and spits out 250 DNA sequences.
But the severity of it and the seriousness of it is this: every 30 seconds, every 30 seconds, somewhere, someone in the world takes their own life because of depression, and it might be two blocks away, it might be two countries away, it might be two continents away, but it's happening, and it's happening every single day.
And it takes place in an area called the Shephelah in what is now Israel.
And then there's this whole weird thing about how long it takes Goliath to react to the sight of David.
I figure about half of that are men, so that takes the number down to 750,000.
You can pay them a certain amount of money, they hire homeless people and others who need a job to stand waiting in the line for as long as it takes, and the lobbyist, just before the hearing begins, can take his or her place at the head of the line and a seat in the front of the room.
Michael Sandel: Takes the intrinsic incentive away.
That profit is that small difference between the price and the cost it takes to produce whatever solution business has created to whatever problem they're trying to solve.
And instead of shoehorning democracy around the world, perhaps the West should take a leaf out of its own history book and remember that it takes a lot of patience in order to develop the models and the systems that you have today.
As the length of the construction takes years, workers end up forming a rather rough-and-ready informal city, making for quite a juxtaposition against the sophisticated structures that they're building.
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