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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
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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."
"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."
"Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering."
"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."
"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."
"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."
"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."
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