Our common future depends on it.

This common understanding will be the pivotal challenge for the future of the transatlantic relationship.

It has created new specialties and advanced our understanding of disease.

Molecular biology improved our understanding of the relationship between genotype and phenotype.

That kind of shared understanding and bridge building is exactly what we need right now .

ABU DHABI We have created an online world whose vastness exceeds our comprehension.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Your and our common dissatisfaction with farming shows that we, and not the peasants, are at fault.

There is a growing consensus among economists that any 750 billion bailout based on Paulson s plan won t by itself do the trick of resuscitating our economy.

We believe that the best investment in our collective future is to scale up the green, low carbon economy. It is an investment with enormous potential for prosperity and profit.

There is general recognition and consensus that the path of reform requires profound re engineering of all four pillars. First, the production chain must shift from export dependence toward domestic consumption.

While the incidence of skin cancer has risen dramatically, so has our understanding of its causes. For over fifty years, ultraviolet radiation from the sun has been the number one suspected cause of skin cancer.

As light pollution covers more of the planet, we are losing one of our oldest connections to nature the ancient ability to gaze at the stars.

This brain's functions and dysfunctions its very structure will broaden dramatically our understanding of the relationship between the self and others.

Our understanding of the other will be improved through these corrections, but it will remain imperfect.

Studies of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, have significantly advanced our understanding of the mechanisms underlying Mendelian genetics.

While the incidence of skin cancer has risen dramatically, so has our understanding of its causes.

We have an intuitive understanding of the importance of limits when the loss of our sky is articulated in poetic terms.

And what puts us together is that we have a common, at least, global understanding of what the word business is, or what it should be.

When they do, our understanding of the process will be greater if we look back at history.

How we adapt to and guide their trajectories will determine our collective future.

Understanding the perceptual system in evolutionary terms makes it possible to uncover the processes that determine our awareness of objects moving in space.

Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for thinking the improbable by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.

The research carried out at the LHC is now likely to steer our understanding of the universe from the smallest elementary particles to our study of cosmology.

What's ours is ours.

And there is now a common understanding in China that meeting this objective requires that the government safeguard financial liberalization.

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As the G8 leaders gather in Scotland, it is hard to imagine them coming up with a better investment in our common future.

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well being.

And I hope you'll come with me on my basic premise that words matter, that they shape the way we understand ourselves, the way we interpret the world and the way we treat others.

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Thank you for your understanding.

Thanks for understanding.

Understanding is essential.

But we ask these questions of ourselves, to seek out connection and understanding of who we are and to understand our place on earth, especially when such understanding is absent in our daily lives or societies.

As the financial crisis has shown, it is also the process that enables us to increase our understanding and ultimately to envisage a new world.

Rarely have I witnessed such failure by policymakers to provide a clear vision of their medium term economic vision a failure that has added to the general and unsettling sense of uncertainty.

Both meetings also focused on disaster management, with the ARF ministers reaching a common understanding on furthering regional cooperation.

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As our understanding of depression grows and we see that it is a recurring problem, the emphasis is shifting from cure to prevention.

There can be no understanding of the other without a changed understanding of the self an identity shift that alters our understanding of ourselves, our goals, and our values.

Our current understanding of physics is powerful and accurate, as far as it goes, but it is not as beautiful and coherent as it should be.

We can work on it together. We need to build a collective database and a collective understanding of where we are to go to the next point.

Medicine needs an analogous insight.

I appreciate your understanding.