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All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life.

— 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.

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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.

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

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