"By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!"

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Horace

“I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.”
“Service is what life is all about.”
“I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.”
“Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.”
“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
“As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.”
“It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.”
“No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?”

Source : "Risky Genetic Fantasies". The Los Angeles Times, July 29, 2001.

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