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We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.

— Douglas Adams

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

You made us what you would not dare to be yourselves. Yet you will not acknowledge us.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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