Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.
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Related Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely ... MARK TWAIN Personally, I don't think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of c... EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits su... WALTER LANG Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited tr... JEFFREY KLUGER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the hum... STEPHEN HAWKING Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT It must be something deep in our DNA. Even though the South has changed so much, it's still passed o... CHARLES REAGAN WILSON Breeding studies with both males and females often are necessary to identify candidate genes respons... DEREK J. TAYLOR My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many va... MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Knowledge cannot be acquired by a slothfulness HORIEH We looked at all our strategic alternatives, including organic growth, a large acquisition of our ow... GARY BLOOM Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT Without the technology transfer to give us the confidence to deliver an aircraft fit to fight on our... LORD DRAYSON To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in try... SHAKIRA Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes ... JILL LEPORE Christiana Care is always looking for innovative tools to assist our clinicians in providing the hig... SHARON ANDERSON Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should... STEPHEN JAY GOULD We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time... MARGARET MCMULLAN In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes... SEAMUS HEANEY The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some ... RYAN HOLIDAY If we can get biotechnology traits, we may be able to turn wheat around. DALE SCHULER To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquire... CHARLES LAMB I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to crea... DAVID AMRAM If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them wha... WILLIAM BENNETT Some day, it might be possible to prevent (ADHD), but that requires genetic research, which now is i... DONNA PALUMBO The consequences of your denial will be with you for a lifetime and will be passed down to the next ... PATTY RASE HOPSON Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... GERMANY KENT To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. HENRI ROUSSEAU One of our visions for this next-generation technology is to have embedded devices in the consumer e... ALI TABASSI I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I d... TOBEY MAGUIRE Israel stands proudly at the forefront of international achievement. The world's leading corpora... EHUD OLMERT Replace the negative traits of your character by the traits you want to have SUNDAY ADELAJA Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to ab... VAN WYCK BROOKS Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to a... VAN WYCK BROOKS Mother's build character.. If one is honest or cheat.. The traits are beveled by care or ignorance o... TALEES RIZVI Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble ca... JACK HORNER Integrity is INBORN/GENETIC ,but like muscles can be strengthened in testing times.If the gene is de... DR. ANIRUDH KAPOOR The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary ... ROBIN WRIGHT We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities. BEN OAK Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place... MICHAEL MORPURGO Over the past year we have enjoyed a very productive collaboration with Pfizer, the world's leading ... EDWARD LANPHIER There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes a... GEORGE M. CHURCH We acquired a ready player for the major leagues. In our opinion, he's ready to go. BILL LAJOIE We might have lost some of our most seasoned and experienced players but we have acquired some senio... GISHON NTINI He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the prese... CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by
the right of inheritance or purchase... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE We want to ensure that companies are able to efficiently adopt this new technology. Our RFID consult... GREG GILBERT If we could understand the players involved in this process, we might be able to prevent the generat... KAREN VASQUEZ You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's ... OLIVIA D'ABO It's been a full five years since people have been able to get their hands on next-generation techno... EVAN WILSON We had some idea of specific genes that might be affecting this trait based on other traits they app... MATT GARCIA The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all go... MICHAEL MOORE I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned 'BITS & PIECES' Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired- it can only be earned. UNKNOWN Over the past year we have enjoyed a productive collaboration with Pfizer. We believe that the expan... EDWARD LANPHIER In the acquire-or-be-acquired corporate mayhem of the 1980s, the mantle of management has passed to ... CHARLES FONTAINE Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a... ISLA FISHER It's just unsettling to have our DNA in a highly unsecured environment like the public mails. Once a... GREG FOWLER Each of us has our own unique traits, but we need them to fulfil our destiny SUNDAY ADELAJA Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do... AMEEN RIHANI It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little o... EDMUND BURKE Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will ... DIETER F. UCHTDORF To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS IGEL Technology is known as an innovative thin client supplier with a very strong focus on customer ... HARDY POPPINGA The fourth quarter was a pivotal one for Netscape, as we underscored our focus on the enterprise mar... JIM BARKSDALE We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn'... JASON SILVA Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love. CAMERON DOKEY We are very excited to be working with Utah State University to build tools that will have an impact... DAVE SCHOWALTER Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to wo... EKNATH EASWARAN There's a board in the gym with the records on it. I have a feeling our names are going to be up the... DOMINIC SPINALE Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life wi... LIONEL SHRIVER It is the last process in embedding our technology on a single chip for our set-top boxes. It is not... HENRY NICHOLAS Red Cliff Solutions is our 6th acquired company in the past 2 years. Perimeter's acquisition strateg... BRAD MILLER Martin Luther King used confidence and courage in his struggle for the Civil Rights movement. Those ... CHARLES SMITH Developing our good traits can assist us to reach our goal SUNDAY ADELAJA Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a... GERMANY KENT
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