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

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

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"We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it."

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"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."

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"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."

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"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."

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

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"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."

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"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."

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"My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes."

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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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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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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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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."

J. William Fulbright, American Politician

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."

Kurt Loder, American Journalist

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