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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry a

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

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Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. – Lewis Thomas

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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the suns position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. – Lewis Thomas

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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning. – Lewis Thomas

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The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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One cant write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who dont like poetry. – Nathalie Sarraute

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. – Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!

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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. – Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

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Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kittens neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away. – Cheryl Hines

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But for me, being an editor Ive been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. – Peter Davison

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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. – Michael Pollan, Second Nature, 1991

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