Yours in sentence

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What I find fascinating is that we've actually wired our world to share, whether that's our neighborhood, our school, our office, or our Facebook network, and that's creating an economy of "what's mine is yours."

You put yours in the white bin."

Now that we know what the problems are around the world, human brains like yours are rising to solve those problems.

And then someone else has something the complete opposite of yours.

I hope you appreciate yours.

Yours truly: humans.

What she wrote was ... "Messages such as yours cannot absolve you of your past actions.

What's in yours?

Where's yours?"

And so I ask myself, I'm starting to ask myself now, even before this extreme dream gets achieved for me, I'm asking myself, and maybe I can ask you tonight too, to paraphrase the poet Mary Oliver, she says, "So what is it, what is it you're doing, with this one wild and precious life of yours?"

On my show, on "White Coat, Black Art," I made it a habit of saying, "Here's my worst mistake," I would say to everybody from paramedics to the chief of cardiac surgery, "Here's my worst mistake," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, "What about yours?" and I would point the microphone towards them.

And when I would feel sorry for myself as nine or 10 year-old girls do, she would say to me, "My dear, on a scale of major world tragedies, yours is not a three."

We want to build our own identities, our own fabric, create an open dialogue so that we share our ideas and share yours with us.

So that glider of yours, the Mach 20 glider, the first one, no control, it ended up in the Pacific I think somewhere.

JC: And has anyone ever discovered which secret was yours in the book?

Well, the options are, I'd say, these three: power renewables, and recognizing that they need to be close to country-sized; other people's renewables, so we could go back and talk very politely to the people in the top left-hand side of the diagram and say, "Uh, we don't want renewables in our backyard, but, um, please could we put them in yours instead?"

CA: The book had three, yours had four.

Certainly, the factory conditions are really tough, and it's nothing you or I would want to do, but from their perspective, where they're coming from is much worse, and where they're going is hopefully much better, and I just wanted to give that context of what's going on in their minds, not what necessarily is going on in yours.

If we set about saying, for example, torture is wrong because it doesn't extract good information, or we say, you need women's rights because it stimulates economic growth by doubling the size of the work force, you leave yourself open to the position where the government of North Korea can turn around and say, "Well actually, we're having a lot of success extracting good information with our torture at the moment," or the government of Saudi Arabia to say, "Well, our economic growth's okay, thank you very much, considerably better than yours, so maybe we don't need to go ahead with this program on women's rights."

He's yours forever.

And I also know that you're not yours.

It's about the same as yours and mine.

You can't say that my interests are special compared to yours, anymore than you can say that the particular spot that I'm standing on is a unique part of the universe because I happen to be standing on it that very minute.

There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle "what's mine is thine, what's thine is mine," the kind of mindset that operates within a family, for example; dominance, whose principle is "don't mess with me;" reciprocity, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours;" and sexuality, in the immortal words of Cole Porter, "Let's do it."

But if you're a virus and you see this, you cross those little legs of yours and you think, "We rock."

You paid someone a million dollars, because it was like 10 percent better than yours.

CA: Reed, I want to look at another passion of yours.

So that was a dream of yours, in a way, from a young age?

Chris Anderson: You have no idea how exciting it is to hear a story like yours.

Yours is the most important issue, but mine is the first issue, the issue we have to solve before we get to fix the issues you care about.

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