If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.
The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of us would caravan in four or five vehicles and hit every corner of the connected 48.
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.
'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members.
Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
Luckily, I have two of the coolest parents around. They're so open about having any and all experiences, so they never hindered us in any way by categorizing or judging anything.
