Only a lifetime ago, parents waved farewell to their emigrating children in the virtual certainty that they would never meet again.
And now, within one incredible generation, all this has changed.

— Arthur C. Clarke We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)

More quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

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