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“Most adults would not dream of belittling, humiliating, or bullying (verbally or physically) another adult. But many of the same adults think nothing of treating their adolescent child like a nonperson. . . . Adolescents deserve the same civility their parents routinely extend to total strangers.”
Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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“For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.”
Source : "The ideas interview: Nick Bostrom" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2006. 
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“The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.”
Source : Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.253
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“We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.”
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“One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.”
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“Stay calm and aggressive.”
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“When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.”
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“A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all.”
