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Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.
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I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.
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Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.
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