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If you want to know how, ask yourself this question: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

So go ahead, ask yourself, what would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

Magicians play with fire and steel, defy the fury of the buzzsaw, dare to catch a bullet or attempt a deadly escape.

Probably in an attempt to make us bow our heads and feel shame.

So in an attempt to prepare their men for any future conflicts, they founded the National Rifle Association to promote rifle practice.

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity, and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

But also, the book was launched in time for me to be accused of constructing the blueprint for a foiled coup attempt.

And what you see here is the prototype, which was the first attempt at building this type of column.

They've never felt they can talk about their suicide attempt, but the HALT events, where there's no expectations for them to talk, makes them feel comfortable to start talking.

We have lots and lots of time to avoid that crisis, and the fiscal cliff was just one more attempt at trying to force the two sides to resolve the crisis.

The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said, "Advanced Western civilization has had a destructive effect on all primitive civilizations it has come in contact with, even in those cases where every attempt was made to protect and guard the primitive civilization."

It's a scream for help, a last-ditch attempt for escape, and a common form of defense in the deep sea.

So nonprofits are really reluctant to attempt any brave, daring, giant-scale new fundraising endeavors, for fear that if the thing fails, their reputations will be dragged through the mud.

So slowly I began to realize that what started out as a rather playful attempt to try to annoy fruit flies might actually have some relevance to a human psychiatric disorder.

The space shuttle was an attempt at a reusable rocket, but even the main tank of the space shuttle was thrown away every time, and the parts that were reusable took a 10,000-person group nine months to refurbish for flight.

And with the help of Skype, that is what we are going to attempt today.

And while some of them can be difficult, there's no attempt to cure them.

Well, it turns out that there's been a great deal of speculation within the medical community over the years about whether there is something fundamentally wrong with Goliath, an attempt to make sense of all of those apparent anomalies.

So the patient had an actual arm, which is painful, in a sling for a few months or a year, and then, in a misguided attempt to get rid of the pain in the arm, the surgeon amputates the arm, and then you get a phantom arm with the same pains, right?

From China to Brazil, these projects attempt to provide as many houses as possible, but they're completely generic and simply do not work as an answer to the individual needs of the people.

The robot provided the safe environment to allow the rat to attempt anything to engage the paralyzed legs.

And on the third attempt, an amazing thing happened.

The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean, is in these waters, and I have come close to dying from them on a previous attempt.

So this is a very rough attempt to think out loud.

Craig Venter's tremendous and brilliant attempt to DNA sequence things in the ocean is great.

And here's the simplest version in nature, and here's my collaborator Ron Fearing's attempt at an artificial version of this dry adhesive made from polyurethane.

And here's the first attempt to have it work on some load.

So the idea is to first get the toes and a foot right, attempt to make that climb, and ultimately put it on the robot.

We take drugs to shift the chemistries of our brains and to change our moods, and what are arguments or advertising or big ideas if not an attempt to influence someone else's mind?

So my first attempt at this was at the MIT Media Lab with Professor Hiroshi Ishii, and we built this array of 512 different electromagnets, and together they were able to move objects around on top of their surface.

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