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The manner in which we mistreat our public spaces is a huge obstacle towards any type of progressive political change, because we've essentially put a price tag on freedom of expression.

So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins, she'd get these other penguins and bring them slowly towards me, bobbing like this, and she'd let them go.

There's a certain alga that swims in the wild, and it needs to navigate towards light in order to photosynthesize optimally.

What you just did, that's the first step towards taking responsibility for what we should do with all of our power.

They were moving towards a naturalistic concept.

Or look at the foreign word and the sounds: can you get a sense of the range of meanings that it's pointing you towards?

So Bell employed an engineer to study those noises, to try and find out where they came from, with a view towards building the perfect hardware codec, which would get rid of them so they could think about using radio for the purposes of telephony.

Our little portion of oneness is given a name, is told all kinds of things about itself, and these details, opinions and ideas become facts, which go towards building ourselves, our identity.

Instead of which, we've allowed ourselves to be tempted towards regime change.

And something about it just kind of drew me towards it.

Okay, this tendency we have, this seemingly natural tendency we have, towards isolation, towards keeping to ourselves, crashes head first into our modern world.

And we see this in the inexorable march towards standardization.

So just as we manage national parks, where we promote the growth of some species and we inhibit the growth of others, we're working towards thinking about buildings using an ecosystem framework where we can promote the kinds of microbes that we want to have indoors.

Congregant Teri Hunter says the first step towards action has to be understanding.

We're understanding, in fact, that those of us who live in the developed world need to be really pushing towards eliminating our emissions.

The oil slick was now moving north towards Dassen Island, and the rescuers despaired, because they knew if the oil hit, it would not be possible to rescue any more oiled birds.

So I think these projects I've showed here are just a tiny step towards this future, if we implement these new technologies for a new self-assembling world.

But inevitably, these tumors progress towards being enormous, ulcerating tumors like this one here.

But I'd like to make the case to you in the next 17 minutes that when we shortcut the physical exam, when we lean towards ordering tests instead of talking to and examining the patient, we not only overlook simple diagnoses that can be diagnosed at a treatable, early stage, but we're losing much more than that.

And I always felt that if my patient gave up the quest for the magic doctor, the magic treatment and began with me on a course towards wellness, it was because I had earned the right to tell them these things by virtue of the examination.

As you go up towards the top of the graph, what you see is each dot is a trial.

So the progress bar at least gives you the vision of a beginning and an end, and you're working towards a goal.

The hate that we feel towards certain groups of people because of who they are or what they believe is so ingrained in our minds and in our society that it can feel inevitable and impossible to change.

And also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread.

They acted differently towards me."

Galileo, 1609: he points his telescope up at the sky towards Saturn, and he sees for the first time in history what we now know are the rings of Saturn.

We know, for example, we know liars will shift their blink rate, point their feet towards an exit.

See for me, cultivating the Infinity Mushroom is more than just scientific experimentation or gardening or raising a pet, it's a step towards accepting the fact that someday I will die and decay.

It's also a step towards taking responsibility for my own burden on the planet.

You've got a plane that's thousands of feet up in the air, going at hundreds of miles an hour, and you're trying to drop an object, a bomb, towards some stationary target in the face of all kinds of winds and cloud cover and all kinds of other impediments.

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