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• The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• . . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Moon, Ideas

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Men, Challenges

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• A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Hair, Critics

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2061: Odyssey Three”, RosettaBooks

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• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

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  Stars, Lying, Thinking

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• As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

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  Science, Law, Three

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• '2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Sea, Forever

  "Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90" by Ravi Nessman in the "Associated Press", March 18, 2008.

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• Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fighting, Men, Hair

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

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  Gravity, Seats, Comfortable

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2061: Odyssey Three”, RosettaBooks

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• Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Eye, Heaven

  Johnston McCulley, Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Philip K. Dick, Pamela Sargent (2013). “The Sixth Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 25 Classic and Modern Science Fiction Stories”, p.70, Wildside Press LLC

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• The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

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  Long, Sloth, Doe

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• Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dozen, Littles, Imagine

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• After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

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  Relationship, Secret, Encounters

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.163, RosettaBooks

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• I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Doubt, Everyday, One Day

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Tales from the White Hart”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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