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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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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In this universe the night was falling the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.
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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.
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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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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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It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
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