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We wanted to know if there was a special part of the brain for recognizing faces, and there was already reason to think there might be such a thing based on this phenomenon of prosopagnosia that I described a moment ago, but nobody had ever seen that part of the brain in a normal person, so we set out to look for it.

And it occurred to me that people didn't really enjoy getting hurt, and that maybe the reason that we weren't flying yet is that we were still attached to that false idea that we would fly the way birds do, or butterflies.

And the reason it has a fountain in the courtyard is I wanted one and I had the checkbook, so I bought one and put it there.

There is absolutely no reason why poor people can't learn world class technology.

The reason is that the system gets reimbursed for the kids they spit out the other end, not the children who read.

And the reason this picture's in here is I did this slide show a couple years ago at a big economics summit, and there was a fellow in the audience who came up to me.

Okay, this was good evolutionarily, but now when it comes to the worldview, it is the exact reason why it's upside down.

I would say yes, extremely important, for the same reason.

China burns half the world's coal each year, and that's why, it is a key reason why, it is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Now, one reason why we have so much data in the world today is we are collecting things that we've always collected information on, but another reason why is we're taking things that have always been informational but have never been rendered into a data format and we are putting it into data.

Now, the second reason relates to Tonya's comments about having had excellent performance evals, great feedback from her teams, and having taken every management training program she can lay her hands on.

And intuitively, the reason why the difference between the rate of return to wealth and the growth rate is important is that initial wealth inequalities will be amplified at a faster pace with a bigger r minus g.

And this was in a way very obvious to everybody for a simple reason, which is that growth was close to zero percent during most of the history of mankind.

Look, the reason why I put all the data online with all of the detailed computation is so that we can have an open and transparent debate about this.

And for that reason, I missed many days of school, because the fees were not paid.

And for that reason, I knew this was the end of me.

And for that reason, I refuse to give up on a single student in my class.

There is a very common sentiment that arises in this debate, even among people who are uncomfortable with mass surveillance, which says that there is no real harm that comes from this large-scale invasion because only people who are engaged in bad acts have a reason to want to hide and to care about their privacy.

They use the Internet not to plot bombing attacks but to read the news or exchange recipes or to plan their kids' Little League games, and those people are doing nothing wrong and therefore have nothing to hide and no reason to fear the government monitoring them.

And there's a reason for that, which is that we as human beings, even those of us who in words disclaim the importance of our own privacy, instinctively understand the profound importance of it.

There's a reason why we seek that out, and our reason is that all of us — not just terrorists and criminals, all of us — have things to hide.

Now, there's a reason why privacy is so craved universally and instinctively.

The reason is that when we're in a state where we can be monitored, where we can be watched, our behavior changes dramatically.

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.

Conversely, even more importantly, it is a realm of privacy, the ability to go somewhere where we can think and reason and interact and speak without the judgmental eyes of others being cast upon us, in which creativity and exploration and dissent exclusively reside, and that is the reason why, when we allow a society to exist in which we're subject to constant monitoring, we allow the essence of human freedom to be severely crippled.

But the most important reason is that a system of mass surveillance suppresses our own freedom in all sorts of ways.

The reason I think that, one of the important objectives that he actually had, one of his, I think, most important tactics, was that he knew that one of the ways to distract attention from the substance of the revelations would be to try and personalize the focus on him, and for that reason, he stayed out of the media.

The United States population has suffered from a general decrease in happiness for the past three decades, and the main reason is this.

I have reason to believe that it's possible for citizens to build their own structures of participation.

So, I gave myself the job title of TED Custodian for a reason, and I will promise you right here and now that the core values that make TED special are not going to be interfered with.

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