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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."


"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"


"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."


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


"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."


"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."


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


"Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument."


"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."
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