But until this moment, I never realized how much Kazakhstan and the U.S. have in common.

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"I never realized how beautiful that curve is that comes in the back of the bowl, " she says.

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While I have observed this phenomenon quite a bit, I never realized its importance until I became a mom.

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But I never realized that, you know, because, like, we were just working and we did what we have to do.

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"I never realized how practical the Bible is about money, " she said.

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"Watching him playing Premiership rugby, I thought one day I'll be doing the same thing but, I never realized it's going to be that soon, " Rokoduguni said.

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All I wanted to do was play the trumpet, just get better at it, and just practice and practice, but I never realized how important it is to know the history - just like knowing the history of yourself.

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"I never realized, " she said.

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But sharing responsibilities has created a sense of community within those teams and produced amazing success that I now know I never would have realized on my own.

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And I realized we never agreed on a fee.

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Holding her, I realized I had never before touched a dead human body.

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And I realized, in that moment, in that instant, I realized we were facing something that we have never, ever faced before.

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And I realized I was looking down a never-ending rabbit hole of precognitive stereotypes, subconscious programming and centuries of oppression and suppression.

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Suddenly I realized there were whole new realities that my pedestrian education had never covered.

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But most importantly, I realized that the man I was when these events took place could never have written Brother John.

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And I realized that, without face-to-face contact, I would never be promoted within the context and culture of that company.

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This had never occurred to me before, and my cheeks burned with frustration as I realized that this has already happened to me.

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Until I realized I was just another guy who sold a script that would probably never be produced (and hasn't been and won't be), and that this was simply the beginning of my new career.

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Looking at the two-seater, I realized immediately that 20 bags of flour, each weighing 50 pounds, would never fit.

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