You're obviously angry that I went to your friend Alistair and that he told me you knew someone named Irene.

I know you can't very well babysit Chloe and attend your own party, so I thought maybe there's someone that you know, who you trusted, who, to...

I didn't have the kind of quantity he wanted, so I put him in touch with some serious guys I knew in Stockton.

And I figured, since I was acquainted with the Sherlock Holmes, I'd be a fool not to... seek his advice, right

Edith Firlock drove down to Gentry to, uh, catch up with someone from her distant past -- a past where she was a leftist lawyer.

I, I thought long and hard as to what to do, but then it occurred to me that my husband was an acquaintance of your brother and that perhaps through him...

This is only a rumor that I've heard, but... are you related to the condemned criminal Tatsuyuki Michima?

Imagine that you were being spontaneously unfriended by everyone in your network other than your mom, your dad and your dog.

The free English classes help empower people to engage with the Ugandan community, allowing them to get to know their neighbors and sell wares.

I did a little research, spoke to a couple of my contacts at the Met, and actually found out that this is a game called squall, which involves beating a goose with a stick on Shrove Tuesday.

We didn't all know each other, but we all kind of trusted each other, and that basic feeling of trust permeated the whole network, and there was a real sense that we could depend on each other to do things.

What the model told us is that, in a nutshell, each bat knows a few other colony members as her friends, and is just slightly more likely to roost in a box with them.

And many of you probably know someone who suffers from obesity, diabetes, Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, allergies and asthma.

A Buddhist scholar I know once explained to me that Westerners mistakenly think that nirvana is what arrives when all your woe is behind you, and you have only bliss to look forward to.

One of the first things I wrote was just a list of names of people I'd known, and they become characters in a kind of three-dimensional drama, where they explain who they are, what they do, their hopes and their fears for the future.

(Laughter) As a matter of fact he did know Willie Brown, and Willie Brown and Herbie and I had dinner four years ago, and we started drawing out that center on the tablecloth.

Not quite a complete standing O, though, and I'm guessing that some people here and maybe a few watching online, maybe someone knows a teenager or a friend or whatever who got sick, maybe died from some drug overdose.

They are our parents, our siblings, our acquaintances, who may have a disease, or take medication that lowers their defenses.

I just came out of the weight shack from working out, and I saw an older gentleman that I knew standing in the middle of the yard just looking up at the sky.

I walked to a party where people I know try hard to know me and ask where I've been, but I can't explain what I've seen to them.

And you've spent weeks and months there talking with them, getting there, and I want to put them on a pedestal, and I said, "You have something that many people have not seen.

Before I started this TED process and climbed up on this stage, I had told literally a handful of people about it, because, like many a journalist, I am far more interested in learning about your stories than sharing much, if anything, about my own.

And at the same time, I thought about this massive group of people I knew: writers, editors, journalists, graduate students, assistant professors, you name it.

And you've probably heard of statins, you know that they're among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world today, you probably even know people who take them.

And we said, let's call our friends at Harvard and Vanderbilt, who also -- Harvard in Boston, Vanderbilt in Nashville, who also have electronic medical records similar to ours.

What I mean by this is, when you start to get in touch with people and you get back in touch with those people from the past, the people with whom you worked or went to school, they are going to remember you as you were before your career break.

They only remember you as you were, and it's a great confidence boost to be back in touch with these people and hear their enthusiasm about your interest in returning to work.

Truly extraordinary altruists' compassion extends way beyond that circle, even beyond their wider circle of acquaintances to people who are outside their social circle altogether, total strangers, just like the man who rescued me.

One in four of all adults in the United States suffers from mental illness, which means that if you haven't experienced it personally or someone in your family hasn't, it's still very likely that someone you know has, though they may not talk about it.

And when I finally did come out in the early 1980s, about the only places to meet other gay people, to socialize, to be yourself, were gay bars.

Friends, acquaintances and strangers, men and women throughout my career ask me over and over, "Caroline, all that fire, all that danger, aren't you scared?"

Let us know if you or your organization or someone you know could help us as we try to build this academy over the next year.

If you’re concerned that you or someone you know may have meningitis, get to the doctor as soon as possible; quick action could save your life.

(Laughter) I was self-obsessed and thoroughly unpleasant to know, until one day I saw across the courtyard a girl who was everything that I wasn't.

And it felt like there was this Kabuki theater of this discussion, where nobody was talking to each other.

Like me, you probably get some of these requests from perfectly pleasant strangers on LinkedIn who want to do things like "get together over coffee and connect" or "pick your brain."

(Applause) But they weren't just pictures of men and women that we knew, but pictures of people that I didn't know, Pretty much, it was pretty clear from what I learned in school, that the rest of the world didn't either.

Which is not just to meet new people and extend your reach, extend your influence, but instead, find someone you don't know, and find someone else you don't know, and introduce them.