"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."

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"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

Charlotte Bunch, American Activist

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

Nick Park, British Director

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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

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"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."

Family

"The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether."

Abortion

"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes."

Ethics

"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."

Ethics

"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."

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"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children."

Life

"We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years."

Nothing

"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."

Fear

"The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right."

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"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."

Danger