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"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
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"Human technology can only go as far as the limitations set by God. Daniel 12:3-4"

"I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste."

"You cannot force a dry well to yield water."

"It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be."

"Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly."
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"There were, however, a few exceptions.One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could, therefore, be regarded as absent."

"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."

"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

"Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence."

"One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion."

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now."

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."
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