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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
• The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
• 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…
• How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
• Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
• I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
• I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
• New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.…
• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
• Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible.…
• I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

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