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If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

— Rod Serling Speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968)

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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

Every man’s death does diminish us. And it follows that every man’s poverty, every man’s indignity, every man’s frustration and hopelessness – they are a part of mankind.

For the first time in television a writer will have the opportunity to let his imagination take him where ever he wants to. The sky is no longer the limit.

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