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Generations Quote by Leon Kass

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“We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.”

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

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The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

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I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

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Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

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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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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

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I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

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

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Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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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.

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I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

Luciano Pavarotti

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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Elizabeth Janeway

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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

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I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

Michael Skolnik

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David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

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The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also…

Claude Nicollier

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The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

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I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have…

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Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because…

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He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Emile M. Cioran

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