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    Larry Niven
    “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”
    ― Larry Niven
    tags: dinosaurs, extinction, insightful, space-exploration
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    Bob Bello
    “The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!”
    ― Bob Bello, Sci-fi Almanac, 2010: An Anthology of Short Stories
    tags: fear, flight, sci-fi, space-colonization, space-exploration, speculative-fiction
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Michael Jan Friedman
    “The Romulans may rip this base in half, pal. They may even kill me. But I'll be damned if they're going to keep me from enjoying a refreshing beverage.”
    ― Michael Jan Friedman, Starfleet Year One
    tags: star-trek
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    Michael Jan Friedman
    “The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its own enemies is lunch. ”
    ― Michael Friedman
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    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    ― S.E. Hinton
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
    tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan
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    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Ray Bradbury
    “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: sense-of-wonder, universe
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    Anton Chekhov
    “After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
    ― Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters: A Translation of the Play
    tags: death, fashion, human-nature
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    tags: anarchy, coercion, collectivism, control, equality, free-market, freedom, individual-freedom, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, natural-law, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, universal-ethics, voluntaryism
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    Bob Bello
    “Every new day is a different universe to explore!”
    ― Bob Bello
    tags: amazement, daily-habits, exploration, sci-fi, wonder
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    Bob Bello
    “There's more than what meets the eye' was meant for people whose eyes are wide open!”
    ― Bob Bello, Starcall Anthology 1
    tags: amazement, impenetrable, investigation, invisible, more-than-obvious, sci-fi, searching, truth-seekers, unknown, wonderment
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    Bob Bello
    “I believe that the vision of most, if not all, sci-fi writers is to warn humanity of all present and future dangers. Well, that's what I'm doing, anyway, occasionally having fun with fantasy, adventure, and pure fiction.”
    ― Bob Bello, Starcall Anthology 1
    tags: author, bob-bello, futurism, mission-statement, personal-vision, prediction, sci-fi, warning, wonder
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    Bob Bello
    “Even if you turn back the clock of the whole universe, you still can't stop and evildoer from exercising his free will.”
    ― Bob Bello, Starcall Anthology 1
    tags: bob-bello, evildoer, free-will, impossible, paradox, probability, sci-fi, time, time-travel
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    Bob Bello
    “Too many coincidences is not a coincidence, sir!”
    ― Bob Bello, Timeship
    tags: bob-bello, coincidence, coincidences, timeship
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    Bob Bello
    “Time travel is impossible only for those, who have no idea that someone has already changed history on several occasions, intentionally or not.”
    ― Bob Bello, Timeship
    tags: bob-bello, starcall-anthology, time, time-quotes, time-travel-quotes, timeship
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    Bob Bello
    “Dream big, and one day you shall fly. Kill the dream, and you shall never see the other side of the sky." (Till There Are Stars by Bob Bello)”
    ― Bob Bello
    tags: bob-bello, dream-big, dream-quote, drem, starcall-anthology, timeship
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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    Bob Bello
    “If scientists and archaeologists investigate everything like detectives, their proof will be more than circumstantial, and their theories will take us to the stars!” —Captain Jul Naris”
    ― Bob Bello, Timewreck
    tags: adventure, bob-bello, captain, quote, space-opera, time-travel, timewreck
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