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If astronomy has taught man anything it is the painful fact that we are not special creatures in any sense of the term. Our star is an average one, and the conditions that led to the formation of our planet and ourselves were probably not very extraordinary.

— Ben Bova Where Is Everybody? (1963)

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He’s so doggone narrow-minded he could look through a keyhole with both eyes.

Saturn (2003)

Even snaky little Vyborg chatted happily with a few of the glowing-eyed young women that clustered about him, Eberly noted. Power goes to some people’s heads; in other people, power goes straight to the groin.

Saturn (2003)

“Wake up in there!” Fritz hollered.
“I’m awake,” said Gaeta.
“These days you spend too much time in bed and not enough time sleeping.”

Saturn (2003)

Your job is not to die for your country. Your job is to get the other poor sonofabitch to die for his country.

Orion Among The Stars (1995)

I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.

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