Its expectations are no longer captured well by the old Woody Allen line that ninety percent of life is just showing up.
But if the alternative in your busy life is just grabbing the closest bottle at the grocery store (the horror), well then, you need to join a club.
If 80 percent of life is just showing up, then I think this trip delivers the other 20 percent in terms of substance, in terms of getting things done, pushing the agenda forward, and driving towards progress and outcomes that directly benefit us, the U.S. and the people of the U.S., but also the people in the countries in the Asia Pacific region.
But tens of thousands already know what life is like just across the border in China.
But despite all he's achieved so far, Hounsou says his remarkable life journey is just starting.
These challenges include a lack of relationships and money to make sure that life is not just bearable but enriching and enjoyable.
He taught me life is not just about you it's also about nurturing the next generation ... preparing a better world for all our children and helping them find the right way up.
The stretch of road near Harajuku station has been a mecca for youngsters dressing up in 1960s rocker garb and, for a few brief hours each week, pretending that life is not just cram schools, exams and dreary journeys to and from soulless suburbs.
Sometimes in life, that is just the way the cookie crumbles.
What is 'real life' for the humans is just an illusion, created to keep their brains active while the machines milk energy from the cerebral cortex.
The other piece of technology that is just currently changing my life is the Blackberry.
Because we know that when we hit those roadblocks, if we keep showing up -- how many times have you heard somebody in your life just -- half of it is just showing up -- and you keep fighting the good fight, if we keep doing what we know in our hearts is the right thing to do, then know that eventually we get there.
Teach First's director of external relations James Westhead said the context of a child's life outside of school is just as important as their experiences inside the classroom.
And so when John McCain says we'll be there for 50 or 60 or 100 years, it is not just the loss of life, which is obviously the most tragic aspect of it, it's also the fact that financially it is unsustainable.
"They may need an air steward just to show them exactly where the life jacket is underneath their seat... and just describe to them how to put it on, " she said.
British public life is deeply corrupt, we just hide the sins behind cherished institutions, beloved traditions and beautiful architecture.
Switching metaphors, the end of the day, Quantitative Easing is just a life preserver to keep the economy from drowning.
Launching its annual A Dog is for Life, Not Just for Christmas campaign, the NCDL said its rehoming centres were already running out of places.
The trouble is, if the economy reaches capacity sooner than expected, or the economic cycle turns down as one day it will the government may find itself forced to put up taxes or cut spending just when life is becoming more painful throughout the economy.
Nor is it just marine life that stands to benefit from removing river impediments.
Sometimes, however, a retrotransposon forgets how to have a life of its own, and is just passed down the generations along with the host's genes.
So now when Facebook makes me long for someone else's fairy tale, I just remember that life is full of give and take, luck and circumstance, decisions carefully weighed, successes and struggles.
The sad fact of life is that the Greek path is just not good enough in terms of drive and determination and this nation does not deserve a red cent more in aid.
All of which got us wondering about just how tough life is inside an embattled White House, and what this kind of turnover means, bad or good, for a president who is not halfway through his term.
To tell someone they can receive a degree in a little over a year, by signing on the dotted line and putting them in debt for the rest of their life just for a profit is monstrous, and by no means does that make the penny look so pretty.
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The reason why I get so passionate about this subject and about cruelty in general whether it be to an animal or person is that life is short and precious, not just for us but for animals also, I just cant understand why people could take another living things life for fun.
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