Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Awareness

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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"The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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"We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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