"Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder."

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Source : "In Defense of Posthuman Dignity". Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 3, nickbostrom.com. 2005.

Nick Bostrom

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Real Quotes

“It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.'”
“He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington”
“Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!”
“running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!”
“There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.”
“To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.”
“But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.”

Source : "Reminiscence and Reverie" by Mark Tobey, Magazine of Art, 44, pp. 228, 231, October 1951.
“It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice.”

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