Reproducing Quotes

• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

  Man Ray

  Creativity, Desire, Creation

  Man Ray (1973). “Opera grafica”

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• Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Eugenics, Ebola, Degenerates

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• God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God’s life and character.

  Gordon Fee

  Life, God, Christian

  Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.58, Baker Academic

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• It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

  Emmanuelle Riva

  Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

  Nelson Mandela

  Past, Society, Refined

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

  Oswald Chambers

  Grace, Soul, Sovereign

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• If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place.

  Wayne Dyer

  Quality, Firsts, Spirit

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Moon, Years

  "The Prospect for Humanity," Saturday Review, 29 Aug. 1964

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• What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking for a way to sustain ourselves and ultimately produce another robot child.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Children, Self

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• Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.

  Charles Negre

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Months

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Relationship, Sex, Men

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• If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Liars, Writing, Reality

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• If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

  Alexander Calder

  Real, Space, Imagine

  Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

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• How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Painting, Vain

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• The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

  Karl Marx

  Self, Return, Moments

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

  Claude Shannon

  Communication, Fundamentals, Messages

  Claude Elwood Shannon, Warren Weaver (1962). “The mathematical theory of communication”

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• A new study shows that the child population in San Francisco is dwindling and in fact San Francisco has the smallest share of children of any major city in the United States. That's odd, huh? For some reason couples in San Francisco don't seem to be reproducing as much as couples in other cities. Gee, I wonder what the problem is there? You think it might be something in the Rice-A-Roni?

  Jay Leno

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.

  Jeff Koons

  Spiritual, Two, Details

  Jeff Koons (2002). “Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

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• Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.

  Gisele Freund

  Photography, Character, Mean

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• The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Fiction, Method, Certain

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• Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Loving Life, People

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• aren't you, uh... reproducing? "sure, we love reproducing it's one of our favorite things.

  Cassandra Clare

  Favorites Things, Bones

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Children, Loneliness, Needs

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• After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

  John Steinbeck

  Dirty, Writing, Boys

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Pastures of Heaven”, p.59, Penguin

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