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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
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A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
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The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
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The only real problem in life is what to do next.
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Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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If children have interests, then education happens.
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To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.
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