Nayef Al-Rodhan Quotes
Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.
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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
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You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.
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Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.
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It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.
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Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
