Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be ...organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although Samuel had a depraved imagination--perhaps even because of this--love, for him, was less a matter of the senses than of t...he intellect. It was, above all, admiration and appetite for beauty; he considered reproduction a flaw of love, and pregnancy a form of insanity. He wrote on one occasion: "Angels are hermaphrodite and sterile."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.... The real is not only ...what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyperreal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been erod...ed by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigge...r and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera--and himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreative faculties are matured early, while passion is... strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as a crime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The atmosphere parents wish to create when talking with children about birth and reproduction is warm, honest, and reassuring, one... that tells children they are free to ask questions as often as they need to, and you will answer them as lovingly as you know how.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the black girls didn't get these pills because their black ministers were up on the pulpit saying that birth control pills wer...e black genocide. What I'm saying is that black men have exploited black women.... They didn't want them to have any choice about their reproductive health. And if you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no sexual love without lust; but, on the other hand, until the currents of lust in the organism have been irradiated ...as to affect other parts of the psychic organism--at the least the affections and the social feelings--it is not yet sexual love. Lust, the specific sexual impulse, is indeed the primary and essential element in this synthesis, for it alone is adequate to the end of reproduction, not only in animals but in men. But it is not until lust is expanded and irradiated that it develops into the exquisite and enthralling flower of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--o...r rather we have seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are tele- viewers, tele-hearers, tele-knowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »