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Life Liberty & the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics

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“Chi lascia al mondo o alla parte di mondo in cui vive il compito di scegliere in sua vece il progetto della propria vita non ha bisogno di altre facoltà se non l'imitazione, la facoltà delle scimmie. Chi sceglie da sé il progetto della propria vita impegna invece tutte le proprie facoltà. Deve usare l'osservazione per vedere, il ragionamento e il giudizio per prevedere, l'attività per raccogliere elementi utili alla sua decisione, il discernimento per decidere e, una volta presa una decisione ponderata, fermezza e autocontrollo per attenervisi. [...] Potrà anche capitargli di farsi condurre su una buona strada e di tenersi alla larga dalla strada cattiva pur non facendo nulla di tutto ciò: ma lui, come essere umano, che valore avrà a confronto con gli altri?”

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Book:La libertà
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“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them. Attached to them are what I've borrowed, perhaps unconsciously, bit by bit, of persons I have seen or noticed or remembered in the flesh - a cast of countenance here, a manner of walking there, that jumps to the visualizing mind when a story is under way. I don't write by invasion into the life of a real person: my own sense of privacy is too strong for that; and I also know instinctively that living people to whom you are close - those known to you in ways too deep, too overflowing, ever to be plumbed outside love - do not yield to, could never fit into, the demands of a story. Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write most entirely out of yourself, that a character becomes in its own right another human being on the page.”

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Book:On Writing
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“On the other hand, my horse and my rifles could also still give me away. It was well known that Old Shatterhand owned a large, heavy, double-barreled gun called Bear-killer, and a Henry Carbine, and that he was riding a black stallion he had received from Winnetou as a gift. Luckily, the commander was not very bright and didn’t make the connection. He returned to his tent without further questions.”

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Book:Old Surehand
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