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Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?
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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No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.
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When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.
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Training was one thing, reality another.
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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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Now I understand,” said the last man.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
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I don't believe in astrology I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
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... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.
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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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If children have interests, then education happens.
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
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Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
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