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The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention.
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The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying all spread out before her, with ever nook revealed, with all the knowledge, all the reasons there - a universe in which time and space had been ruled out because time and space were only put there, in the first place, to make it impossible for anyone to grasp the universe. Seen for a moment, half-sensed, a flash of insight that..
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Nothing definite, of course. But say a hundred years to get themselves established as a viable society, perhaps three hundred to rebuild an approximation of the kind of technological setup they had here on Earth. And from there they built on the basis of what they had, with the advantage of being able to drop a lot of ancient millstones they carried around their necks. They build from scratch and to start with there was no need to struggle ..
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Man was spread thin throughout the galaxy. A lone man here, a handful there. Slim blobs of bone and brain and muscle to hold a galaxy in check. Slight shoulders to hold up the cloak of human greatness spread across the light-years. For Man had flown too fast, had driven far beyond his physical capacity.
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But five men had died, three humans and two androids, beside a river that flowed on Aldebaran XII, just a few short miles from Andrelon, the
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An android voice answered, "It's Mr. Thorne, sir, on the mentophone from Andrelon." "Thank you, Alice," Adams said." --
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Clifford D. Simak |
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Thousands of listeners listening in on the random thoughts of random time and space listening in for clues, for hints, for leads.
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If Man had taken a different path, might, he not, in time to come, have been as great as Dog?
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The man was a somewhat seedy character. He might not actually have slept in his clothes, although the first impression was that he had. He clutched a threadbare cap with stubby, grimed fingers. The fingernails were rimmed with the blue of dirt.
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We'd like to talk to you, sir, if you don't mind," said the woman of the trio. "You see, we're a sort of delegation."
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She folded fat hands over a plump stomach and did her best to beam at him. The effect of the beam was spoiled by the wispy hair that straggled out from beneath her dowdy hat.
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We want you to sign a petition," said Mrs. Jellicoe."
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It seems to be a social axiom that as misery and privation increase for the many, the few rise ever higher in luxury and comfort, feeding on the misery.
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She was a creature of the woods and hills, of springtime flower and autumn flight of birds. She knew these things and lived with them and was, in some strange way, a specific part of them. She was one who dwelt apart in an old and lost apartment of the natural world. She occupied a place that Man long since had abandoned, if, in fact, he'd ever held it.
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Moments ago the creature in the tank had rested in another tank in another station and the materializer had built up a pattern of it -- not only of its body, but of its very vital force, the thing that gave it life. Then the impulse pattern had moved across the gulfs of space almost instantaneously to the receiver of this station, where the pattern had been used to duplicate the body and the mind and the memory and the life of the creature ..
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McKay tells me that you went home sick," she said. "Personally, I hope you don't survive."
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Beyond his own sure knowledge, he had not a shred of proof.
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The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.
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They are worse than the disinherited. They are not the has-beens, they are the never-weres.
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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.
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Memory and dust, he thought, link us to the past.
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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
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They're just ordinary people," Nancy said. "You can't expect too much of them."
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Like so many other fairy tales, I thought it was a horror story.
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
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