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Uncle Ibrahim was always hanging out on the balcony and talking to me while I was painting.
It wasn't simple to work in such environments, sometimes having pigs under you while you paint or climbing a stack of garbage to reach a lift.
And on a scientific level, fire differs from gas because gases can exist in the same state indefinitely while fires always burn out eventually.
While there were bigger issues, most of what happened were little behaviors and patterns that slowly chipped away at my ability to do my work well.
And then in later experiments, we found the opposite, that fir was sending more carbon to birch than birch was sending to fir, and this was because the fir was still growing while the birch was leafless.
Take texting while someone's speaking to you.
Managing the economy while creating stability is vital, getting prices right, and policy consistency.
I have walked through your towns and, while looking, failed to see.
There is a subtler, quieter disadvantage in having those privileged traits and yet feeling history to be moving away from you; that while the past was hospitable to people like you, the future will be more hospitable to others; that the world is growing less familiar, less yours day by day.
We're not talking about ending up with really beautiful electric cars here and a few electric buses there while we keep investing in the same kind of infrastructure, more cars, more roads, more oil.
This did help productivity for a while.
And after a while I said, "Harold, what is it that has meaning to you?
While Harold's time was limited, palliative care's is not.
Since 2013 in Bangladesh, over a dozen secular bloggers and community activists have been literally slaughtered by extremists while the government has done very little.
I had to consider every possibility while I was safely on the ground, so that when the time came and I was actually making the moves without a rope, there was no room for doubt to creep in.
It took me a while.
And that's when I noticed that smell of victory I mentioned a while ago.
They added a bumper to the chair, a safeguard that protects their feet, while allowing them to kick the ball.
And all of this, while sitting on the toilet.
What that basically is saying is, those traits that define you, they're not really yours, they're just on loan to you for a little while from boys.
And several explicit photos that he had taken of me while I was asleep, living with him in Jamaica.
And worse, legal loopholes and jurisdictional issues drag this out for months, while my private parts were on display for months.
While people have been using a variety of recipes to produce cement for over 4,000 years, concrete itself has a surprisingly short lifespan.
And while a few Indonesians have recently joined ISIS, their number is tiny, far fewer in per capita terms than the number of Belgians.
Yet he chose to embrace his enemies instead, while forcing his own party to compromise.
Second floor, third floor, and all of a sudden, while you're building the third floor, the whole structure collapses.
And while batteries have made some really cool improvements lately, the truth is, they're just never going to be as efficient as the electrical grid.
And that worked pretty well for a while, but then late last year, it sprung a leak.
And while nuclear kind of edges out coal, the thing is, people don't really fear coal in the same way they fear nuclear, which really operates on our unconscious.
But what's clear is the kinds of changes we're seeing show that the roots of altruism and compassion are just as much a part of human nature as cruelty and violence, maybe even more so, and while some people do seem to be inherently more sensitive to the suffering of distant others, I really believe that the ability to remove oneself from the center of the circle and expand the circle of compassion outward to include even strangers is within reach for almost everyone.
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