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“It has never happened!” cannot be construed to mean, “It can never happen!”—as well say, “Because I have never broken my leg, my leg is unbreakable,” or “Because I’ve never died, I am immortal.”

— George R. Stewart Earth Abides (1949)

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What a strange thing then is this great civilization, that no sooner have men attained it than they seek to flee from it!

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People certainly tended to overestimate the intelligence of dogs!

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“Oh, don’t worry,” he thought, putting it into words, “there never had been perfection yet, and it certainly isn’t going to start now for me.”

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How then, once overthrown, shall this great civilization, except by renewed Forces and Pressures, ever come again?

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In any basic struggle for power, the intellectual man went under.

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