I regret missing the speech.

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

When I was a kid, I traded in homework assignments for friendship, then gave each friend a late slip for never showing up on time, and in most cases not at all.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

My presence here today, representing the Ministry of Finance, clearly demonstrates the good cooperation that exists among ministries and the importance our country attaches to the effective realization of the MDGs.

And what I mean not at TED that I'm at this point in my life, truly my set of circumstances I would truly consider an accident.

Bolivia is where Costa Rica was 20 years ago, an eco tourism expert told me at the first national summit on the industry on the shores of Lake Titicaca.

I remember being present, as a young student in Warsaw, at an illegal meeting at the university to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the reform movements of 1956 the meeting at which Kolakowski severed his last, by then fragile, links with the official world of the Communist Party.