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Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example -

cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.
Nick Bostrom

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.
Sloane Crosley

Whether one admired or was repulsed by the positions he took on matters foreign and domestic, it is undeniable that Reagan's ability to project anger was highly attractive to his most passionate supporters on the far right - and crucial to his political success.
Jackson Katz

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
Brian Wilson

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.
Chuck Schumer

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.
Josh Groban

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
David James Duncan

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.
Jason McCoy

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
Dakota Fanning

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