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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."


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


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


"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."


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


"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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