Benevolent Quote by Arthur C. Clarke

“You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.”

Arthur C. Clarke

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“Here the trees surrounded them with an invisible, anechoic blanket, so that every word seemed sucked into silence the moment it was uttered.”

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“I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”

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“Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.”

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