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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."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
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"It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness."
"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."
"If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet."
"It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space."
"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?"
"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."
"It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species."
"When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe."
"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."
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