"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."

-- Leon Kass

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“It's always an interesting thing that happens between an artist and their work. People collapse the two, and for any artist, there will be a long period of being considered one thing before being considered another - whether despicable, rhetorical, or poetic. But we all know that these things are made with a huge amount of will and intention. Yet ultimately they're out of our control.”
“O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God! To spread, where'er thy golden feet have trod, The benediction of His grace divine: To hold the promise of His final plan Blazing before the eyes of human-kind, And, at thy setting, leave His love enshrined Anew in the reminded heart of man!”
“My hand and pen are not in plight, As they have been of yore.”
“Yes, we too are stardust.”

Source : "Sofies verden (Sophie's World)". Book by Jostein Gaarder, 1994.
“Your spirit is the true shield.”
“If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.”
“Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.”
“I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.”

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