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"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."

"I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either."
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"It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants."


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


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


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


"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."


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


"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."


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