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" We realized that we can ’ t go it alone if we ’ re going to solve problems and take advantage of resources to create real change ," Ben-Horin said, " so we identified our constituency and invited them all to come to San Francisco to meet with our capacity building partners … and what we ’ re going to do now is to use some old fashioned organizing techniques, taking statements of intent that people made at the Summit and putting them on a blog … and calling on people to make good on what they said they would do … we ’ re going to drive each of these conversations towards a specific project and ask did it happen, and what ’ s next …?” Ben-Horin reported back on the results of this process in a featured blog post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review published on July 18, 2012.
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An English version of the album was planned — as can be seen on the tape titled " Guns & Ammunition " in the " Dom andra " music video — but was cancelled, according to lead singer Joakim Berg: " We decided it was not worth it ( releasing the album in English ) when we realized we had sat in a tour bus for two long US-tours, and nothing had happened.
Wilson realized that by scheduling the Golden Raspberry Awards prior to the Academy Awards, the ceremony would get more press coverage: " We finally figured out you couldn't compete with the Oscars on Oscar night, but if you went the night before, when the press from all over the world are here and they are looking for something to do, it could well catch on ," he said to BBC News.
We never realized that crime is something that happens to, and in, a community.
Leaders of the UAW realized they had to control the shop floor, for as Reuther explained in 1939, " We must demonstrate that we are a disciplined, responsible organization ; we not only have power, but that we have power under control.
We had our moments where we realized we were not going anywhere.
" My friend and I were driving a once-familiar road, when the car stalled .... We started to walk .... We made no effort to conceal our presence .... Suddenly I realized where I was.
He often called to his brothers who were playing on the other side and said, “ Mama died you know ... We will have to be kept in school from now on !” He realized later that his mother had sacrificed herself for her sons.
" We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were for carrying passengers until terrorists realized they could be used as missiles ," Baxter has said.
We recorded " Fuck and Run ," and that's when I realized we were on to something.
An interview with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with the Inside Media at The Paley Center explain the challenges they had to face after Bergman's death: " We kind of realized right away that one person wasn't going do it, cause that's what she was amazing at, which was she could do so many different voices, and we had her just do all of them cause she could.
Following the invasion of the U. S. S. R. on 22 June 1941, Litvinov said on a radio broadcast to Britain and the U. S., " We always realized the danger which a Hitler victory in the West could constitute for us ," which one commentator described as, " in the tactful language which underlings must apply to dictators ... tantamount to ' I told you so .'".
" After the symposium, a priest explained, " We have realized that the nuclear power generation goes against life on the earth.
We want to ensure that, the above mentioned ideas and objectives are realized in a systematic and structured way and we promise to strive hard to tread that path.
When the Dutch government legalized prostitution in 2000, it was to protect the women by giving them work permits, but authorities now fear that this business is out of control: " We ’ ve realized this is no longer about small-scale entrepreneurs, but that big crime organizations are involved here in trafficking women, drugs, killings and other criminal activities ", said Job Cohen, the former mayor of Amsterdam.
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We are fighting only for immediate objects — objects that can be realized in a few years ... we say in our constitution that we are opposed to theorists ... we are all practical men ...
We hadn't been married hours before I realized I had never really known Jimmy.
We recognize the natural impatience of people who feel that their hopes are slow in being realized.
" We realized our audience was getting younger.
" We tried hard to make it work but we realized that we were both heading in different directions ," the duo said in a statement.
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We ran out of money and we haven't eaten for two days ''.
We haven't slept together since we started.
We want him back there or we want him dead ''.
`` We can get it if we dig '', he said patiently.
`` We -- we eloped '', Cappy said.
We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.
We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.
We collected `` lucky stones '' -- all the creamy translucent pebbles, worn smooth and round, that we could find in the driveway.
We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
We hear equally fervent concern over the belief that we have not enough generalists who can see the over-all picture and combine our national skills and knowledge for useful purposes.
We are already committed to establishing man's supremacy over nature and everywhere on earth, not merely in the limited social-political-economical context we are fond of today.
We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.
We must believe we have the ability to affect our own destinies: otherwise why try anything??
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.
We face, indeed, what may be a turning point in history, and we must act decisively and wisely.
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.
We got Dr. Glenn to him as quickly as we could, and we wired Tom of Papa's desperate condition.
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