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If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
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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A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
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People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.
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The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
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When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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