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makes great typography great it was beautiful historical artistically subtle in a way that

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it all into the Mac it was the first computer with beautiful typography if I had never never dropped

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that are live-streaming them 24 hours a day. But the beautiful thing about these live cameras is our animals are all blissfully unaware

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was a Hare Krishna. What a beautiful world it was when you could still get lost in an airport.

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but when it's done right, the outcome is both beautiful and enduring. Novels teach us empathy by putting us

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our minds and our civilization. Every beautiful, difficult thing that followed, followed because the parts held together.

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But could it ever be conscious? Will a robot ever gaze at a sunset and experience the beautiful colors, the reds and the oranges?

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electromagnetic fields sweep through the cortex like weather systems. Even a single neuron is such a beautiful biological machine. A far cry from the simplified, cartoon-like neurons

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Shed your cocoon. Spread your beautiful new wings. Your metamorphosis is complete.

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Joey Katona: How's my half smile? JT: So beautiful. (Laughter)

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We did it in five days -- five long and beautiful days. And the world watched.

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the light on the water or those rabbits scuffling through the undergrowth. And of course, it's easiest of all if you're in a beautiful, natural setting. But even if you're in a busy city, just step into a church

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who come to a river. It's a beautiful scene, but it's shattered by the cries of a child, and actually several children, in need of rescue in the water.

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>> Welcome. really beautiful. >> I'm meeting up with her to find out more

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to understand from a very early age that the body is beautiful because of what it can do.

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In fact, I think each of these words is a beautiful, colorful addition to the English language that reflects the diverse cultural moment we're all in.

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For artists, creators, developers, and sometimes just to enjoy a beautiful, fantastical environment.

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But so what if it was an A? Is there ever going to be a beautiful New Yorker cartoon anthology of explanations?

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but we can challenge what the system is optimized for by changing what it means to be beautiful. Just as the solution to homophobia isn't to make everyone straight,

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through a transition she said because even when you mess up it sounds beautiful an army Sergeant got his face shot off

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to rural communities across southern Appalachia. Appalachia, for me, is a really beautiful place, and it is where I call home.

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that I have planted in my mind has begun to blossom into something beautiful. This magical mantra was like a magic pill for all perceived suffering,

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they're that extra embellishment that makes something beautiful even better. With Gracenotes, we let our family, our friends, our kids,

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where we sold our fruit commercially and they rescued donkeys. My early childhood was so beautiful, strange and very privileged.

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and she said the same thing back. It was so beautiful and it also really hurt.

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"Hm. Everybody knows you're a beautiful, talented Black girl. But what do I do with a beautiful, talented Black girl?

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Everybody knows you're a beautiful, talented Black girl. But what do I do with a beautiful, talented Black girl? Do I put you in a movie with Tom Cruise?

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

He said that everybody knew that I was a beautiful, talented Black girl. (Laughter)

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Chloe was learning to sew at the time, so she asked her grandma to help her sew a beautiful tote bag, and they filled it with toiletries and hygienic products and other goodies.

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We say, "Hello, how are you? It's a beautiful day. How do you feel?"

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to try to figure out why. What I found was that something really beautiful was going on. This is almost poetic.

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

So, here it is. When you talk to strangers, you're making beautiful interruptions into the expected narrative of your daily life

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You're sitting on the throne when you make art. Another beautiful reason to create is because it reclaims your most valuable resource

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Start taking up space. Leave a legacy, leave this world with something beautiful. We're human beings, we are just born to create things.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

If my dad hadn't written me these beautiful, beautiful forms of poetry, like, do you know how much they healed in me

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

and the vulnerability it took my father to give them to me? It is beautiful. The way you're hoarding your creations

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED · TED

You are inherently creative, with something very beautiful to give this world. I need you to start taking it seriously.

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(Applause) CA: You have a beautiful ... you are not a rude, angry person

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but I don't feel any different. CA: This was a beautiful thing you posted, your son. I mean, that last thing you said there, "I've never felt love like this,"

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Now in my research with intercultural couples, I found many beautiful aspects of having two different languages amongst partners,

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Is that horrifying, or do you see some logic to that? CC: I understand the beautiful, you know, the beautiful vision that that is,

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CC: I understand the beautiful, you know, the beautiful vision that that is, that there is a really helpful assistant

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or any other laws in different jurisdictions. CA: You had that beautiful point in your talk where you said,

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I think the human need and pursuit of meaning is both beautiful and profound, because when you have meaning in your life,

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And so in that way, the deep, deep human need for meaning connects us in a circle, I think a beautiful and profound circle of generosity and gratitude. And so right now here, I'm deeply grateful that you all have let me

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how that reverberates through time. And that is a beautiful thing, and I wish all of that for you.

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and my place in the universe. HW: So you wrote the most beautiful memoir, which is a totally different type of writing from poetry, obviously.

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And when I wrote the memoir, my editor said, "Oh, this is beautiful, but we have some notes." And I said, "Notes?

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It cannot do that. While AI can tell all stories and can tell beautiful stories, it cannot tell a story that one heart can tell to another.

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before they bring that uncomfortable conversation to their partner. And I think that's beautiful. That's the practice.

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And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank you. Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,

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And yes, that means catching all of those miseries and hurt, but it also means that when beautiful, amazing things just fall out of the sky,

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Besides, creature of extremes and excess, I've always thought Apollo beautiful but boring, and a bit of a dumb blonde.

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And he closed with two things. Number one: he couldn't imagine any life more beautiful than that of a Stoic.

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and out through the mouth. Beautiful. Chin up, very slowly with me, feeling powerful.

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But how did David get here, where he can orchestrate a whole room full of beautiful people to just flirt with him in a matter of seconds?

Why Body Language Is the Key to Self-Expression — and Hot Selfies | David Suh | TED · TED

(Applause and cheers) I mean, don't get me wrong, both Davids are beautiful. But this David saw posing as a tool to look good,

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on the front lawn. It was a beautiful sunny day. When my father came home and saw this, he flew into a rage.

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It really does. I know that I will never stop fighting for this beautiful planet, even when there is ups and downs in the movement.

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and waking up one morning and thinking about how that day is going to be. And some of the most beautiful times that I share with my fellow climate activists

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what does the future look like if we win? And all of a sudden, the future is truly beautiful. I imagine taking my granddaughter to see the reefs.

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to learn to reason and to interact with this beautiful 3D space we call home, and also create many more new worlds that we can all explore.

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And learning isn't linear. It's a beautiful, endless loop. When I shared my Teotihuacán obsession,

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this string, a sequence, turns into this beautiful shape on the right. That's the protein.

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you just start appreciating how exquisite they are. I mean, look at how beautiful these proteins are. And each of these things do a special function in nature.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

grammatically masculine in Spanish -- German speakers are more likely to say bridges are "beautiful," "elegant" and stereotypically feminine words.

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"I'm not blank enough. I'm not thin enough, rich enough, beautiful enough, smart enough, promoted enough." The thing that underpinned this was excruciating vulnerability.

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They fully embraced vulnerability. They believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful. They didn't talk about vulnerability being comfortable,

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Crater Lake in southern Oregon, which is my closest national park, is a beautiful example of a landscape that seems to be coming out of the past. But they're managing it carefully.

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One of the issues they have now is white bark pine die-off. White bark pine is a beautiful, charismatic -- I'll say it's a charismatic megaflora

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

Because children don't want to hike through a beautiful landscape for five hours and then look at a beautiful view.

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

through a beautiful landscape for five hours and then look at a beautiful view. That's maybe what we want to do as adults,

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

that no matter where this plant comes from, it is beautiful, and it deserves to be touched and appreciated. Thank you.

Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | Emma Marris

And she said, "Yes, because he has a beautiful daughter and two beautiful grandchildren, and he doesn't know that,

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for him, the forests in the southeastern parts of Norway, with the beautiful and mysterious owls; and for me, the bird island and mountain Runde

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JA: Now it's around this time that I would generally bring in the beautiful music, as I just did, and you'd start to get that warm feeling.

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and if all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals,

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I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals, and incomprehensible people,

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So how do we undo this trend? How do we reclaim our beautiful and complex systems of natural food, food given to us lovingly by Mother Earth according to her own rhythm,

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to create a sensual and dazzling garden, so beautiful that I didn't want to lay a finger on it. However, I picked up my courage

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This is Villa de Tamazulapan del Progreso, a beautiful little village in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca. My village,

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The next year, I responded to a fire threatening the town of Waterton, which is a beautiful community in the Rocky Mountains. This fire appeared more distant,

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I remember when I was young, I liked to make pictures of beautiful places, but I didn't know that would become the passion of my life.

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And when I met him, I was in awe of witnessing this tiny, beautiful being enter into our lives. I also had this realization that he wasn't just entering our lives,

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