the thing

"I did it because I saved a lot of lives, and that's the thing that bothers me so much about Russia-Ukraine."

"The thing that comforts me is that the internet was built on the ashes of the over-investment into the telecom infrastructure of yesterday," said Jeff Boudier, who builds products at the AI community hub Hugging Face.

“I just really wanted to analyze, is just working all the time and achieving and having success, is that really the thing that’s going to set people free?”

I suppose the thing that I indulge myself most in is a really good Pre-Raphaelite painting or really good artwork.

He would maintain, decade after decade, that style “is nothing less than the writer’s habits of mind—it is not a kind of paint applied afterwards, but the very germ of the thing.”