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• Why do you insist that the human genetic code is "sacred" or "taboo"?
  It is a chemical process and nothing more. For that matter -we- are chemical processes and nothing more....
• Technological advance is an inherently iterative process.
  One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe....
• I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome.
  With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinctio...
• If our society seems more nihilistic than that of previous eras, perhaps this is simply a sign of our maturity as a sentient species.
  As our collective consciousness expands beyond a crucial point, we are at last ready to accept life's fundamental truth...
• The people of Gideon have always believed that life is sacred.
  That the love of life is the greatest gift .. we are incapable of destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we love so deeply -- life in every form from fetus to developed being....
• My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack.
  Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties....
• Life, as we know it, does not exist.
• It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.
  -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow...
• If the life of natural things, millions of years old does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred?
  -- Edward Abbey...