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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."
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"One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?"


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


"I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them."


"Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal."


"Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity."


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


"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."


"One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."
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