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"Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance."
"The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival."
"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."
"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
"Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract."
"Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed."
"A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul."
"War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you."
"Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area."
"All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule."
"Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind."
"A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents."
"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."
"Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell."
""Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness."
"What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number."
"Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself."
"Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation."
"Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential"
"You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas."
