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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."
"A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth."
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"Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet."
"My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over."
"Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?"
"Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?"
"It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose."
"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
"We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it."
"Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists."
"If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology."
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