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Guns are the crutches of the impotent.
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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Minehead
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Arthur Charles Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
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Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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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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A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.
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