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The ebbs and flows of hostility have not shifted with ideological zeal, but rather with changes in the geopolitical landscape.

But rather than making war inevitable by viewing this as ideological, we would be wise to seek ways to make peace possible.

And rather than have private capitalism, they have state capitalism.

Our tissues all have very different abilities to regenerate, and here we see poor Prometheus, who made a rather tricky career choice and was punished by the Greek gods.

And so this is what we did, and the way we did it was by coming back to this typical tissue-engineering approach but actually thinking about it rather differently.

As the length of the construction takes years, workers end up forming a rather rough-and-ready informal city, making for quite a juxtaposition against the sophisticated structures that they're building.

Maybe we need a new story, not a story about giving up the fight or of hopelessness, but rather a story of victory and triumph, of a valiant battle and, eventually, a graceful retreat, a story that acknowledges that not even the greatest general defeats every foe, that no doctor has ever succeeded in making anyone immortal, and that no wife, no matter how hard she tried, has ever stopped even the bravest, wittiest and most maddeningly lovable husband from dying when it was his time to go.

So I do believe that one of the defining fights of our times will be the fight for the control over personal information, the fight over whether big data will become a force for freedom, rather than a force which will hiddenly manipulate us.

You know, there's a small country nestled in the Himalayan Mountains, far from these beautiful mountains, where the people of the Kingdom of Bhutan have decided to do something different, which is to measure their gross national happiness rather than their gross national product.

The great Indian economist, Amartya Sen, was awarded the Nobel prize for demonstrating that famine is not so much about the availability of food supply, but rather the ability to acquire or entitle oneself to that food through the market.

I think we're all in this room, probably, because we know that, in fact, Africa is the only region in the world where hunger and malnutrition are projected to go up over the next 10 years, where the food import bill is now double what it was 20 years ago, where food production per capita has stagnated, and where fertilizer use has declined rather than increased.

And in fact, would even dump the grain in Lake Michigan, rather than spend more money transporting it back to their farms.

In the design of our commodity exchange in Ethiopia, we've done something rather unique, which is to take the approach of an integrated perspective, or what we call the ECX Edge.

That means if an African child is born today, rather than three days ago, they will get an extra day of life at the end of their lifespan.

It's there, but it's not as prevalent as you think, and on days when it is really bad, you get used to it rather quickly.

Shocked, the mayor decided to step aside rather than participate or lead a procession that was ostensibly in support of organized crime.

And so, differences aside, what these three organizations share is on the one hand, a very clear understanding that institutions cannot be imposed from the top, but rather they are built from the bottom up one interaction at a time.

Or more recently, Laurent Ney's beautiful and rather delicate bridge for Tintagel Castle in the UK.

And if we indeed need a Big Brother, I would much rather have a domestic Big Brother than a foreign Big Brother.

And if we can agree on both a value and a way of measuring whether we've been successful at reducing that re-offending, then we can do something we think rather interesting.

The great inequality in developing countries makes it difficult to see, for example, that in terms of transport, an advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

Rather, we believe these stories because we are biased to believe them, and we are biased to believe them because we are so afraid of death.

Now rather than call this by its unwieldy catalog name, we briefly called it "Rama," after the cylindrical spacecraft that passed through the solar system in Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction story in 1973.

But if you said to me, "You have to have acute anxiety for the next month," I would rather slit my wrist than go through it.

And here we have a view of evolution where rather than having evolution go over the linear time, we have it coming out from the center.

So this is not a playlist or a list of songs intended for the park, but rather an array of distinct melodies and rhythms that fit together like pieces of a puzzle and blend seamlessly based on a listener's chosen trajectory.

You know, I thought it was rather facetious.

It's challenging, but there's nothing else in the world I'd rather be doing.

Or then there's this, or rather these: the two versions of Leonardo's "Virgin of the Rocks" that were about to come together in London for the very first time.

It's a triumph, in a way, of bourgeois values rather than aristocratic ones.

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