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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

— Stanisław Jerzy Lec Foucault's Pendulum (1989)

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The window on the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

Unkempt Thoughts (1957)

The richer your imagination, the poorer you feel.

Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.

Power for the World (2010)

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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.

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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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