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“With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.”
Stephen Hawking
“In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.”
Stephen Hawking
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
Horace
“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”
Plato
“Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.”
Plato
“Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
Coco Chanel
“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
Karl Marx
“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
Karl Marx
“Change in all things is sweet.”
Aristotle
“But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.”
Aristotle
“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.”
Moliere
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
Aldous Huxley
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
Aldous Huxley
“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?”
Lord Byron
“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Taste may change, but inclination never.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Victor Hugo
“One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.”
Franz Kafka
“What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.”
Willie Nelson
“Ignorance is always afraid of change.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Habits change into character.”
Ovid
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
William Shakespeare
“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.”
Dennis Quaid
“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”
Robert Rodriguez
“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”
Serj Tankian
