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I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

Mortimer Adler

Giving Up, Love Is, People

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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

Frank J. Tipler

Intelligent, People, Understanding

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It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

Lennart Nilsson

Mean, People, Technique

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The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of motion, is still probably moving in that train. For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should evanish by piece-meal; a conclusion not warranted by the local disappearance of one or two species of animals, and opposed by the thousands and thousands of instances of the renovating power constantly exercised by nature for the reproduction of all her subjects, animal, vegetable, and mineral.

Thomas Jefferson

Nature, Moving, Animal

"Revenge of the Meat-Eating Megatherium" by Brian Switek, www.wired.com. June 9, 2011.

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The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

George C. Williams

Doe

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Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.

George Gilder

Government, Order, Top Down

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It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.

Valerie Solanas

Dubious, Males, Female

Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM Manifesto”, p.35, Verso

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Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.

Daniel Suarez

Sex, Moving, Mean

Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.425, Penguin

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Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

Walter J. Phillips

Art, Quality, Copying

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Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the species. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the world of pure Spirit.

Samael Aun Weor

Feelings, Energy, Three

Samael Aun Weor (2011). “Alchemy and Kabbalah”, p.81, Glorian Publishing

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If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

Joycelyn Elders

Ifs

"Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool". Kate Harding, Feministing.com, June 3, 2007.

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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Alfred de Vigny

Art, Use, Imitation

Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

Alan Hirsch

Teaching, Heart, Expression

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Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

Bill Barich

Art, Lakes, Sea

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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Ambrose Bierce

Art, Work, Skills

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

Lydia M. Child

Flower, Heart, Autumn

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If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.

Chris Kilham

Responsibility, Plant Medicine, Healthy

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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

Inspiring, Art, Expression

Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.

Isamu Noguchi

Mistake, Men, Unique

Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

Ernest K. Gann

Powerful, Fear, Groups

Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

Lewis Mumford

Civilization, Eggs, Growth

Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Civilization, Viruses, Information

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I'm telling you that at eight she knew more about reproduction than Xerox.

Joan Rivers

Funny, Sex, Humorous

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Stephen Bayley

Art, Communication, Technology

Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

Marilyn French

Real, Home, Men

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