Going down to Second World War, the uranium up to today in the and cobalt that are used to power mobile telephony. So the misfortune with the Congo is its knack for producing the right resources at most critical times have lead to a bit of a scramble for its resources, starting with the European colonialists to the actors in the Cold War to most recently local insurgency groups.
And when people ask me what I do these days, I have to be very specific. This is called Misfortune Cat from .
And at the time, I thought that deafness was simply a disability. It was a misfortune . Those poor people, wouldn't it be great if we could get them all hearing?
She wanted, not euthanasia or a miraculous cure, stronger pain medication, or a second opinion, but different food, a pair of glasses. She said nothing about her terrible misfortune . She was calm, matter-of-fact.
that emerged from the incel involuntary celibate subculture. Um, incels believe that due to misfortunes of life, genetics, whatever, they were doomed to be involuntarily celibate forever. Um, no one found them attractive enough to ever have sex with
when at this same moment that he is standing on Weeks Bridge and tossing hosannas out into the infinite universe, there are at this same time multitudes of others whose lives are painfully constricting with misfortunes that are just as arbitrary and undeserved as his own expansive good luck, but Cass Seltzer does feel grateful.
My tribe from South LA to Hollywood, I barely look. What's the point? Misfortune and niggas crossing 10 minutes, slam both are cautious. Figures, the bus stops time for no more 'round here.
The man's body jumped, and he cried out. And would you guys have ever known the misfortune that lay ahead of you?
In this book he shows how neuroscience developed over the centuries. The old fashioned way scientists would wait for misfortune to strike in the form of strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents, and see how the victims coped.
and which is bad? Most of us do have pity for people in misfortune .
and separated, I think that it should be put together, so I'm, I'm trying to bid the entire 10,000 record collection so. So again, I just, I buy people's collections that have had some sort of misfortune with it. I'll tell you a very interesting one I got. Um, Levi Stubbs, the late lead singer of the Four Tops, his daughter just sold me his entire record
and collaboration. And we are incentivized to want to create a positive impression of our decision-making track record. If you make a bad bet on yourself that causes you all this pain and misfortune for years and years, admitting to that can feel very shameful. And I would argue that admitting to that is even more shameful in the social media era, where we're all incentivized to make our lives
water belongs in Egypt. What happened was, is that Ethiopia had the great fortune of never being colonized by a European power--one of the rare African countries for that to happen. Ethiopia also had the great misfortune of not being colonized by a great European power because when the European powers came together and the councils of Europe and said "Well, what should we do about Africa?" They then divvied up water rights and the Brits were in charge of--were the colonial powers in Egypt and Sudan at that time and they said,
Never once did we complain about these things. And all these aspects of my life, whether you call it fortune or misfortune , unfolded in such a way in politics that they started coming to light. Because when I was taking my oath as Chief Minister, TV reporters went to my village, questioned my childhood friends, went to capture videos of my home.
So thank you very much. essentially. So I am the person who has the misfortune , if you want to call it that, of coming into government on the first days of the Obama administration in 2008
And that's a bit of a shame because some of us may already have the misfortune to be in middle age or older
know in every case I was just so delighted to have some great story of some other person's Misfortune when they
And other stories include, I worked at a -- I had the good fortune in retrospect -- the misfortune I thought, at the time -- to work at an upscale gentleman's bar on the Upper
You have no right to assume the why question deserves an answer when posed about a boulder, misfortune ,
Because what they're talking about is, as he described it to me, he said it's their general attitude to misfortune .
So I've been trying to figure out how to articulate the question, but you had the misfortune of becoming a historical figure when
And, of course, also, we have the misfortune of not having the plans.
direction, to my left, towards the sort of plant-based diet and away from the brilliant but misfortune
by it. Everybody's doing well by it. >>JENNIFER: Do you think if you hadn't had your own misfortune that you would feel to this
The global pandemic strikes, such an immense tragedy. Many folks jump to the conclusion that it could not have been the result of a bunch of small, random, disconnected misfortunes . A government must have engineered it on purpose.
It is, with complete consistency, the name of that set of qualities which enable you to deal with misfortunes , to ally with fortune, and to rise to glory while maintaining
The man's body jumped, and he cried out. KAROLINE O'SULLIVAN: When you ask yourself that question with this previous photo of yourself, did this girl know what misfortunes lay ahead of her?
But by contrast to that, my sister's life became mired in a procession, seemingly unending procession, of misfortunes and afflictions.