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If he knew that, said The Hat, it would not impress him. He thinks now to be one with you. An equal. A dog is not your equal... (Clifford D. Simak)
He stirred again, halfway between sleep and wakefulness, and he was not alone. View quote
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His mind went back to that strange business of the spiritual force and the even stranger machine which had been built eons ago, by means of which the galactic people were able to establish contact with the force. View quote
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Out among the stars lay a massive body of knowledge, some of it an extension of what mankind knew, some of it concerning matters which Man had not yet suspected, and used in ways and for purposes that Man had not as yet imagined. And never might imagine, if left on his own. View quote
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Perhaps all that had happened had been no more than the working out of human destiny. If the human race could not attain directly the paranormal power he held, this instinct of the mind, then they would gain it indirectly through the agency of one of their creations. View quote
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Enoch caught his breath at the beauty and the wonder of it - the old, hard wonder of what this thing might be and what it might be meant to do. View quote
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I have become a student of the sky and know all the clouds there are and have firmly fixed in mind the various hues of blue that the sky can show. View quote
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Here was the very negation of life and motion, here was the stark, bald beginning when there was no life, nor even thought of life. View quote
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Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries. View quote
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Ulysses, he thought, had not told him all the truth about the Talisman. He had told him that it had disappeared and that the galaxy was without it, but he had not told him that for many years its power and glory had been dimmed by the failure of its custodian to provide linkage between the people and the force. View quote
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Space is an illusion, and time as well. There is no such factor as either time or space. We have been blinded by our own cleverness, blinded by false perceptions of those qualities that we term eternity and infinity. (Clifford D. Simak)
There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. View quote
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The sun was setting, throwing a fog-like dusk across the stream and trees, and there was a coolness in the air. View quote
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I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. View quote
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How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny. View quote
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That is not what I said. I said the Highway of Eternity. View quote
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The Hat replied. It is about the brotherhood of life. Who I am is of no consequence. I am only here to act as an interpreter. View quote
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I find it a most intriguing and amusing thing that it might be possible to package the experiences, not only of one's self, but of other people. View quote
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Once again the universe was spread far out before him and it was a different and in some ways a better universe, a more diagrammatic universe, and in time, he knew, if there were such a thing as time, he'd gain some completer understanding and acceptance of it. He probed and sensed and learned and there was no such thing as time, but a great foreverness. View quote
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It's not the machine itself that does the trick. The machine merely acts as an intermediary between the sensitive and the spiritual force. View quote
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Perversity, she thought. Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years? Could the human race, quite out of hand and with no sufficient reason, have turned its back upon everything that had built humanity? (Clifford D. Simak)
He had acted on an impulse, with no thought at all. The girl had asked protection and here she had protection, here nothing in the world ever could get at her. View quote
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You either obey a law or you forfeit it. You can't forget it with one breath and invoke it with the next. View quote
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It was a hopeless thing, he thought, this obsession of his to present the people of the Earth as good and reasonable. For in many ways they were neither good nor reasonable; perhaps because they had not as yet entirely grown up. View quote
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That had not been the first time nor had it been the last, but all the years of killing boiled down in essence to that single moment - not the time that came after, but that long and terrible instant when he had watched the lines of men purposefully striding up the slope to kill him. View quote
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