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GC: After last night, not for a while.
So if you're waiting for Paul Ryan and the Republicans in Congress to flake away, it's going to take a little while.
And while she's saying this, I'm realizing I've done that.
But can you do that while keeping your hands on the wheel?
You can ignore those words; they're used by people trying to say they're smart while pretending they're humble.
But what if we could keep using Styrofoam and keep benefiting from its cheap, lightweight, insulating and excellent packing ability, while not having to suffer from the repercussions of having to dispose of it?
I discovered that while economic status matters for health, there is more to the story.
A white gentleman stood in the audience and said that while he agreed with me that racism was important, we could never measure racism.
We kept looking at these two numbers, obsessing with them and pretending that our world could be reduced to a couple digits and a horse race, while the real stories, the ones that really mattered, were somewhere else.
So every once in a while, if I'm lucky, my wife and I like to go out to dinner, and we have three children under the age of seven.
It was the unwillingness of his government to engage in conflict with other governments, in tense discussions, all the while, innocent people were being harmed.
In the next six minutes that you will listen to me, the world will have lost three mothers while delivering their babies: one, because of a severe complication; second, because she will be a teenager and her body will not be prepared for birth; but the third, only because of lack of access to basic clean tools at the time of childbirth.
Over one million mothers and babies die every single year in the developing world, only because of lack of access to basic cleanliness while giving birth to their babies.
While I was promoting the novel in Nigeria, a journalist, a nice, well-meaning man, told me he wanted to advise me.
But my teacher would also give you a cane to hold in your hand while you walk around and patrol the class for noisemakers.
Now, what was even more interesting about this is that the boy was a sweet, gentle soul who had no interest in patrolling the class with the cane, while I was full of ambition to do so.
And then she got married, and after a while her husband's family began to complain that she had changed.
While cancer can steal many things from a family, it shouldn't steal play.
And while the water quality is slowly improving and the pipes are being replaced now, more than two years later, the water is still not safe to drink.
They ridiculed residents asking for help, while publicly insisting that the brown, smelly water coming out of the tap was safe to drink.
And so, the markers of empathy in our college graduates have been dropping dramatically in the past two decades, while those of narcissism are on the rise.
Even while it costs us.
One afternoon, while I was waiting for him, I went into a greengrocer, a typical neighborhood store with a little bit of everything.
While doing the shopping, I started talking to Jose, the owner.
The reality was that I was growing up in the strongest financial nation in the world, the United States of America, while I watched my mother stand in line at a blood bank to sell her blood for 40 dollars just to try to feed her kids.
He drove trucks for a little while, but his life path was always pulling him back to nursing.
I very much like its title – "The Future You" – because, while looking at tomorrow, it invites us to open a dialogue today, to look at the future through a "you."
While such concerns must be taken very seriously, they are not invincible.
How wonderful would it be, while we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters orbiting around us.
After a while, a Samaritan, a very much despised ethnicity at the time, walked by.
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