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For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.

— Edmund Cooper Seed of Light (1959)

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It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.

Seed of Light (1959)

There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.

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It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.

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But it is better to be destroyed on strange frontiers than to live in a prison of ignorance and fear.

Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)

For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.

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