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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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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Arthur Charles Clarke
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Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
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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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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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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.
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I believe any malevolent supercivilisation would have rapidly self-destructed as we may be in the process of doing ourselves. If we do have contact, physical contact with aliens, I think it will be benign.
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
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. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
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