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So our idea is to create a bypass, is to use these brain-machine interfaces to read these signals, larger-scale brainstorms that contain the desire to move again, bypass the lesion using computational microengineering and send it to a new body, a whole body called an exoskeleton, a whole robotic suit that will become the new body of these patients.

And that program proved something to us that we knew intuitively: people's need for theater is as powerful as their desire for food or for drink.

They are objects of desire.

It starts with an internal sense, an internal desire, or a need.

And because it's an internal desire, we actually have some sense of control over that.

Once that trust was built, everybody wanted to be part of the marathon to show the world the true colors of Lebanon and the Lebanese and their desire to live in peace and harmony.

Is it something as obvious as that jealousy, which boils down into person, desire, impediment, is such a solid narrative foundation?

But our desire to believe this story is so deeply embedded that we are reinventing it again for the scientific age, for example, with the idea of cryonics.

And so, if we look from our own experience, anger, hatred, jealousy, arrogance, obsessive desire, strong grasping, they don't leave us in such a good state after we have experienced it.

I know this, that's why love can be defined in a more accurate way as the desire of being desired.

This uselessness is easily demonstrated, because in order to be valued I need another to desire me, which shows that I do not have any value of my own.

And when we do come out of those closets, we'll recognize that our fight is not with each other, our fight is with an outdated, Victorian sense of human sexuality that conflates desire with property rights, generates shame and confusion in place of understanding and empathy.

Congress, who has access to be briefed on these things, and now has the desire to be, has produced bills to reform it, and two independent White House panels who reviewed all of the classified evidence said these programs have never stopped a single terrorist attack that was imminent in the United States.

Those are on the rise, and we see people expressing interest in those capabilities and a desire to employ them.

The other thing I would say is that your idea of nuclear or chem-bio-threat is not at all far-fetched and in fact there are a number of groups who have for several years expressed interest and desire in obtaining those capabilities and work towards that.

My hope and desire is that the tools and processes we develop in our research group can be used to bring highly functional prostheses to those who need them.

More than 70 percent of the teens in our study said that the police had tried to "befriend" them or indicate a desire to help them out during the interrogation.

You have to conquer the desire to get what you want.

"Lord, grant that I desire more than I can accomplish," Michelangelo implored, as if to that Old Testament God on the Sistine Chapel, and he himself was that Adam with his finger outstretched and not quite touching that God's hand.

I'm here today because saving the oceans is more than an ecological desire.

All those buildings have something in common: it's that something is searching for desire, for dreams.

When AlphaGo defeated the world champion Ke Jie, while Ke Jie was crying and loving the game of go, AlphaGo felt no happiness from winning and certainly no desire to hug a loved one.

And it lay precisely in that insatiable curiosity, that irrepressible desire to know, no matter what the subject, no matter what the cost, even at a time when the keepers of the Doomsday Clock are willing to bet even money that the human race won't be around to imagine anything in the year 2100, a scant 93 years from now.

We've heard about your work with the kids and the ex-steel workers, and we're inclined to want to support your desire to build a new building.

I said, "Senator, I'm reluctant to go into a field that I don't know much about, but I promise you that if you'll support my school, I'll get it built and in a couple of years, I'll come back and weigh out that program that you desire."

So, the photograph becomes this teaser and incites desire and voyeurism; what you can't have, you want more.

And it's that wish, or that desire, that I suppose I'm dealing with in my work.

Human shame is a very powerful motivator, as is the desire to avoid it, and that's the reason why people, when they're in a state of being watched, make decisions not that are the byproduct of their own agency but that are about the expectations that others have of them or the mandates of societal orthodoxy.

So, just one example: Madame de Gaulle, the wife of the French president, was famously asked once, "What do you most desire?"

He's getting out of San Quentin in a couple of weeks" — (Laughter) — "and he shares your fervent desire that art should engage and enable people to connect."

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