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The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
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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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
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They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence their experiments did not always succeed.
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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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