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- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
- A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
- Jewish Proverb
- A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
- Chinese Proverb
- A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.
- Chinese Proverb
- A camel never sees its own hump.
- African Proverb
- A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
- Chinese Proverb
- A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- A clear conscience is a good pillow.
- American Proverb
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