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"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?"
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"Do not depreciate a creation of God."

"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."

"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."

"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."

"The sweetest apples are eaten first."

"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."

"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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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."


"What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?"


"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."


"My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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