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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

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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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
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God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
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Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.
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