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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."


"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."


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


"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children."


"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."
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