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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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