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As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
Engineer
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Arthur Charles Clarke
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Charles Willis
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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
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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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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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