And, of course, that makes sense, because hope is an abstract phenomenon it's an abstract idea, it's not a concrete word.

And this is how even an abstract idea such as TED becomes this global inspiring trend.

The idea of a Club of Six, floated by Nicolas Sarkozy early in his presidency, was always abstract and is now untenable.

Very abstract.

It may be an abstract idea, such as TED, a product, a technology, something you would like people in your workplace or community to do or embrace, a national thing, a regional trend, even a global peace process

Oh, very abstract.

The new model of development, if it is to be genuine and not simply an abstraction, must take into account some basic elements.

I want to argue that there is a general abstract insight that we can make practical, which is that, if we can give more choices to people, and more choices to leaders who, in many countries, are also people.

Sometimes they're a little bit more abstract.

There was always a problem in this approach, namely that the general price level is an abstraction.

Or it can also be abstract.

In fact this isn't just abstract.

Money there is an abstraction the abstraction of abstractions, as Hegel put it which helps explain why salaries are no longer rooted in reality.

It has the potential to change the United Nations from an abstract notion in young people's minds into a genuine entity in the souls of countless young people throughout the world.

Quarries once made the nature, and sometimes we took this and we transformed.

But you know what? You don't have to take my word for it.

In the world of abstract research she's a danger, destruction.

The Court also recognizes that the environment is not an abstraction but represents the living space, the quality of life and the very health of human beings, including generations unborn.

And one of the things we need to understand is what's the archetype or the persona of our customers that we're actually wanting to get and so one of the things that's kind of hard for startups is to realize that getting customers isn't some abstract idea you really need to understand who your customers are and this is not just thinking about selling to consumers.

In Ukraine today, these are not abstract questions.

It is an abstract value, whose meaning is determined by the codec.

The Finnish outer islands in the Gulf of Finland were demilitarized.

Hence, a complex situation that is difficult to categorize by using general formulations.

Nonetheless, it was felt impossible to determine their effect in abstracto.

And when it's said like that, it's often quite abstract.

I want to argue that there is a general abstract insight that we can make practical, which is that, if we can give more choices to people, and more choices to leaders who, in many countries, are also people.

The non weaponization of outer space is not an abstract issue for us.

We the countries of the South are no more than statistics to the North.

These facts are not mere abstractions for us in Pakistan.

So here's an observer it could be an eye it could be a telescope.

The workers I got to know had a curiously abstract relationship with the product of their labor.

They took an abstract, outsize challenge and distilled it into achievable ends.

94. Development does not take place in a vacuum, nor is it built upon an abstract foundation.

One is telling us a fundamental truth about the universe, almost devoid of any of those applications, but now we can go and take them back to any place where we applied it.

I haven't even had time to think of my trees, much less get them pruned.

It's a thought. Just a thought.

I mentioned earlier the fact that music is a different capacity because it's abstract.

We have good abstractions in structural biology to describe this.

6. Guatemala believes that the appropriateness of retaining the system of permanent members of the Security Council must be studied.

We have advanced the concept of a Zero Missile Zone in South Asia.

And if it wasn't, then there'd be graffiti and the leaves would fall off the trees.

These are just human abstract constructs that end up becoming very useful.

And this brings us one step closer to an objective view of ourselves and our relation to the world around us.

He had an idea, a very clear idea.

Have I got an idea. What an idea. Huh.