Word: want
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...book, most of the campaigns that I've worked on have been nonviolent, with no property destruction. I don't believe in running around at night wearing ski masks. If we do something, we like to do it in the light of day. We want to really create some kind of a debate over the issue, not just to try to get even...
...think there's anything extreme about saving the whales from the whale hunters. I don't think there's anything extreme about saying we have to stop pumping carbon into the air. If we're extremists, so be it. The stakes are too high. If we want people to make sacrifices in their lives, then we environmentalists should also be willing to make sacrifices. Too many times [environmentalists] are high-paid people working in corporate offices, and they're living just like the people that they're trying to reform...
...Attitude, in which you will learn mental exercises to reprogram your outlook from gray to the rosiest pink: "affirmations," for example, in which you repeat upbeat predictions over and over to yourself; "visualizations" in which you post on your bathroom mirror pictures of that car or boat you want; "disputations" to refute any stray negative thoughts that may come along. If money is no object, you can undergo a three-month "happiness makeover" from a life coach or invest $3,575 for three days of "optimism training" on a Good Mood Safari on the coast of New South Wales...
...made a very kind and generous offer, and I would want her to know that I am touched that she has offered her time, energy, and money to make our faculty meetings a little brighter. We choose to forego cookies at our faculty meetings as part of our larger effort to live within our new budgetary reality. Unsurprisingly, this amenity was less important to our mission than, say, maintaining financial aid for one more needy student. We certainly didn't eliminate cookies in the hope that someone else would pay for this amenity. The FAS is, of course, not unique...
...agree to fly to Oslo to accept the award on Dec. 10. The task fell to Obama's two top speechwriters, Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes, to craft Obama's words, which had to strike a delicate balance; they needed to both seize the moment, when the world would want to hear from him, while heading off the inevitable criticism that Obama was being rewarded prematurely, for rhetoric, not action. Not only did he say he was "surprised and deeply humbled," but the President acknowledged that he doesn't "feel that I deserve to be in the company...