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Sometimes he had indulged in daydreams about finding someone. More often, though, he had tried to adjust to what he sincerely believed was the inevitable — that he was actually the only one left in the world. At least in as much of the world as he could ever hope to know.

— Richard Matheson I Am Legend (1954)

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I don’t believe in the "supernatural," I believe in the "supernormal."

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

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And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

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What you don’t understand yet is that we’re going to stay alive. We’ve found a way to do that and we’re going to set up society again slowly but surely.

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