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"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
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"There is no sharper spear than wisdom. There is no larger shield than faith. There is no better fortress than truth. There is no greater strength than hope. There is no higher power than love."
"You have to fight great battles to guard your mind, extraordinary battles to protect your heart, and remarkable battles to defend your soul."
"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force."
"To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down."
"Being love-filled and beautiful is one of the most powerful defenses that one can employ."
"When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword."
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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
"Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon."
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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