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It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. - [Mistake] Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. - in the London "Observer" [Universe] There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. - attributed to [Universe] Things are the way they are because they were the way they were. - [Reality] It was eight o'clock along the Greenwich meridian. In England the wintry sun of 7th January, 1964, was just rising. Throughout the length and breadth of the land people were shivering in ill-heated houses as they read the morning papers, ate their breakfasts, and grumbled about the weather, which, truth to tell, had been appalling of late. - The Black Cloud (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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