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The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.
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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Arthur Charles Clarke
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Charles Willis
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I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.
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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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Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
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What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
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To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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