Robert Winston Quotes
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
Iain Sinclair
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Jackson Browne
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
Oded Fehr
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
Fidel Castro
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Joanne Rowling
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.
Naval Ravikant
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The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
Hamadoun Toure
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
Kate Bush
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If God is our father you thought, than Satan must be our cousin.
James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
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Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
Harry Houdini
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
Laura Linney
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What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.
Allen Iverson
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Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?
Robert Winston