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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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One fail-safe after another had let them down. Helped by the ionospheric storm, the sheer perversity of inanimate things struck again.
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There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create Him.
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space. I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!"
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we've learnt something from the most barbaric century in history: the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation.
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Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples.
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The fates could not possibly be so malevolent, now that he had only a few hundred meters to go.
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