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“Travel light, and death will never find you.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“I raise my bottle. To the dead, I suppose, and to us left. “Fuck it,” I say, and drink it. “Fuck it,” everybody else says, and drinks theirs. It’s as good a prayer as any.”
― Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, The Grey

“I’m your death, come to get you, I’m every wrong thing you’ve ever done. I’m the things you’ve killed, things you’ve left behind, come for pay.”
― Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, The Grey

“My body does it I guess, but not me. If I can choose, I’m awake.”
― Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, The Grey

“Even this cold, this fearful, your mind wanders. You’ve lost a mile not knowing you were walking.”
― Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, The Grey

“When the greatness of Tao is present action arises from one’s own heart When the greatness of Tao is absent action comes from the rules of “kindness” and “justice” If you need rules to be kind and just, if you act virtuous, this is a sure sign that virtue is absent Thus we see the great hypocrisy Only when the family loses its harmony do we hear of “dutiful sons” Only when the state is in chaos do we hear of “loyal ministers”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition

“Allow your life to unfold naturally Know that it too is a vessel of perfection Just as you breathe in and breathe out Sometimes you’re ahead and other times behind Sometimes you’re strong and other times weak Sometimes you’re with people and other times alone”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition

“As you live, so you die”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition

“Contentment alone is enough Indeed, the bliss of eternity can be found in your contentment”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition

“One who speaks does not know One who knows does not speak”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition

“They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“I’m only an ex-astronomer; it’s years since I did any real research. Now I’m a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Hal (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“For relaxation he could always engage Hal in a large number of semimathematical games, including checkers, chess, and polyominoes. If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“(One day, somebody had predicted, Earth would have a ring like Saturn’s, composed entirely of lost bolts, fasteners, and even tools that had escaped from careless orbital construction workers.)”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, “Good-bye.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness—only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Cassini—who discovered Japetus in 1671—also observed that it was six times brighter on one side of its orbit than the other.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“But what finally ended this cycle was Verdi’s Requiem Mass, which he had never heard performed on Earth. The “Dies Irae,” roaring with ominous appropriateness through the empty ship, left him completely shattered;”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Whatever their origin, the human race was fortunate to have seen such a wonder; it could exist for only a brief moment of time in the history of the Solar System.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“Call it the Star Gate.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“It was some kind of cosmic switching device, routing the traffic of the stars through unimaginable dimensions of space and time. He was passing through a Grand Central Station of the galaxy.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“I thought this couldn’t happen in astronomy. Isn’t celestial mechanics supposed to be an exact science? So we poor backward biologists were always being told.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“magnetohydrodynamic”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“Einsteinian time dilation.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“classical Hohmann orbit—”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

“Astronomy was full of such intriguing but meaningless coincidences. The most famous was the fact that, from the Earth, both Sun and Moon have the same apparent diameter.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two