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# Weekend Words: Arm
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-arm/
- Published: 2015-05-24T12:45:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:31:23.000Z
- Description: This week came the report of a new robotic arm that can be operated with the power of thought.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

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Federico Fiori Barocci,”Study of a Bent Right Arm” (c. 1590), pastel on chamois paper; 232 x 176 mm. Musée du Louvre, Paris (Image via Web Gallery of Art)

This week came the [report](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/technology/a-bionic-approach-to-prosthetics-controlled-by-thought.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) of a new robotic arm that can be operated with the power of thought.

> There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.  
>  
> **—Virginia Woolf**

> These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.  
>  
> **—Alfred Hitchcock**

> I am Mother Jones. The Government can’t take my life and you can’t take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.  
>  
> **—Mary Harris Jones**

> Take my arm, take my leg, oh baby don’t you take my head.  
>  
> **—Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, “Let It Bleed’**

> What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.  
>  
> **—Rodney Dangerfield**

> I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.  
>  
> **—Dizzy Dean**

> When you’re mad at someone, it’s probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.  
>  
> **—Evel Knievel**