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There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.


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ELIOT ENGEL In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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JIM RAMSTAD The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryo...
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MICHAEL STEELE More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures ...
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STEVE ISRAEL Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current po...
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BARBARA LYONS Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for ...
PAUL BERG Stem cell research has the potential to aid 128 million Americans.
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RON REAGAN We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell r...
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ALEX YEMENIDJIAN We are actually creating these mobile music events for the sole purpose of making the content availa...
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NANCY REAGAN Florida needs to join the 21st century. Make us a player in biotech research ... We beseech you on b...
GARY SUSSER The pontiff reiterated his opposition to stem cell research
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DOROTHY THOMPSON All of these people's service would go dark. There simply are no reliable alternatives to the BlackB...
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DIANE KRAUSE Many of these products are very good. The industry has put a significant effort into making high-qua...
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ALAN WELLS We're trying to make each of these alternatives the best design we can.
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LOUISE SLAUGHTER We have enough dirty coal plants, and we do need to look for alternatives. No matter how you stack i...
KAREN CHAPMAN Competing concerns make it extremely difficult to reach consensus on a federal policy in this area. ...
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GREGORY STOCK Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of disease...
TOM ALLEN We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for ...
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ALISSA JOHNSON The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alt...
STEPHEN COHEN Ask for alternatives. There is no one right answer and there are multiple options.
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GEORGE DALEY We provide health alternatives and give them something to start with.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY