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"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."
"Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering."
"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."
"Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes."
"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."
"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own."
"Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries."
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"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."
"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
"Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel."
"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley."
"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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