Ellen Key

In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed.

Swedish Writer

Shawn Bradley

People have always talked about me. People always made fun of me, my whole life. It's always something that's been there. I learned to deal with it at a young age. And as I grew up and it became more prevalent in my life, I was able to control it because I was prepared for each step.

Henry Rollins

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

American Musician

Lawrence Osborne

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

British Novelist

Evgeny Morozov

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

Belarusian Writer

Vivek Murthy

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

American Public Servant

Johan Renck

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

Swedish Director

Mark Morris

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

American Dancer

Helene D. Gayle

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

American Activist

Raheem DeVaughn

Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.

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 Still, recent advancements in neuroimaging and cognitive psychology narrow down the field of prospects. Let's walk through three of today's more prevalent theories, using the same restaurant setting for each. First up is dual processing. We'll need an action. Let's go with a waiter dropping a tray of dishes. As the scene unfolds,

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 to see how prevalent this phenomenon is. And fish are much more interesting than corals, because they have really advanced vision, and some of the fish even have, the way that I was photographing it, they have lenses in their eyes that would magnify the fluorescence. So I wanted to seek this out further.

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 requiring multiple drugs and a high potential for side effects. This discourages people from finishing the full course, and partial treatment enables bacteria to develop resistance to these drugs. Today, the disease is still prevalent in 30 countries, most of which face other health crises

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 though it may be more prevalent and disproportionately affect the experiences of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups. To call it a syndrome is to downplay how universal it is. It's not a disease or an abnormality, and it isn’t necessarily tied to depression, anxiety, or self-esteem.

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 And when we engage people in those questions, in finding the answers to those questions, then I believe that we have a much better chance of addressing the alienation and disaffection from politics that is so prevalent in so many countries across the developed world today.

Why governments should...

 About one-third of stroke survivors suffer from aphasia making it more prevalent than Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis, yet less widely known. There is one rare form of aphasia called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA,

Aphasia: The disorder...

 diagnosed humanity and saying that we flee from disorder because its associated with evil in short the phobia of disarray has become so prevalent that we've come up with a quick fix so what's the wonder drug its order and

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 At that point, they can transform into colon cancer, one of the most prevalent and preventable forms of cancer in the world. That's a slow though growth times vary, it often takes around ten years for a small polyp

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 smother their prey the plant then releases enzymes which aid the slow digestion of its victim sundews can be found in every continent except antarctica but they are especially prevalent in

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 for self-sacrifice prevalent throughout the kingdoms of life, even us. Skeptical? Then do this thought experiment with me. Imagine trying to sleep soundly at night

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