"The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

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“Don't follow me, I'm lost.”
“Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.”
“Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.”

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“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”
“I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before magaÂzines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.”

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“It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.”
“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
“I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.”

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