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Because for so long, I've been standing on the sidelines, content to be a witness, just taking photographs.
The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone, cannot be imagined.
And I think what it is is I don't think we have fully come to terms with the meaning of this disaster, with what it meant to witness a hole ripped in our world, with what it meant to watch the contents of the Earth gush forth on live TV, 24 hours a day, for months.
Harvest witness, smoke.
Everybody gets this one, honest mockingbird as a witness.
In both my vocation at Robin Hood and my avocation as a volunteer firefighter, I am witness to acts of generosity and kindness on a monumental scale, but I'm also witness to acts of grace and courage on an individual basis.
He told me that he would have been unable to witness or submit to injustice without doing anything.
It's a very rare occasion that you get to actually witness an iceberg rolling.
My generation has been very fortunate to witness and participate in the historic transformation of China that has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years.
But then we are also so fortunate to witness the transformation of the whole country.
For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property.
If you encounter something that you believe is problematic, that disturbs you, that concerns you, an injustice of some kind, something that just doesn't feel quite right, then why not witness it, record it and share it?
As long as it's fun and it seems like it's going to be a funny idea and it seems like the people who witness it will also have a fun time, then that's enough for us.
So, two people watch the same event, witness the same crime, but end up remembering different things about that event.
So if you take English speakers and I just show you someone breaking a vase, and I say, "He broke the vase," as opposed to "The vase broke," even though you can witness it yourself, you can watch the video, you can watch the crime against the vase, you will punish someone more, you will blame someone more if I just said, "He broke it," as opposed to, "It broke."
Perhaps by then we will be able to afford the luxury of just sitting in an audience with no other purpose than to witness the human form in motion.
He said, "When we were in Eastern Europe and dealing with oppression, we wanted all kinds of things, but mostly what we needed was hope, an orientation of the spirit, a willingness to sometimes be in hopeless places and be a witness."
He was evolving, and we were all witness to it.
And that to me was a bad start to the afterlife, having to witness your own funeral and feel gratified.
But before I get to that, I want to share what it was like to witness this epidemic grow in Kensington.
It's difficult to witness something so overwhelming.
I wanted them to know that we will be bearing witness to them, and that we will do whatever we can to help make a difference in their lives.
In August, 1993, I had my first opportunity to witness on a massive scale the impact on children of institutionalization and the absence of parenting.
This is the first outfit change on the TED stage, so you guys are pretty lucky to witness it, I think.
All I am is a witness.
But my métier is to bear witness and that is the crux, the heart of the matter, for us reporters who do this.
It changed the face of this country, as you can see today and witness.
And I tell you, this kind of care customization for everything from your goals to your genetics will be the most game-changing transformation that we witness in health care during our lifetime.
As I stand under them, I see not just a cloud, but understand that what I have the privilege to witness is the same forces, the same process in a small-scale version that helped to create our galaxy, our solar system, our sun and even this very planet.
Al Gore made presentations in the House and the Senate as an expert witness.
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