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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."


"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."


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


"If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness."


"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."


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


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


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