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1. "I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser. "And me," said Fowler, "back into a man." ~ Clifford D. Simak
2. "It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness." ~ Clifford D. Simak
3. "It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species." ~ Clifford D. Simak
4. "Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet." ~ Clifford D. Simak
5. "Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?" ~ Clifford D. Simak
6. "What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?" ~ Clifford D. Simak
7. "Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs." ~ Clifford D. Simak
8. "The need of one human being for the approval of his fellow humans, the need for a certain cult of fellowship - a psychological, almost physiological need for approval of one's thought and action. A force that kept men from going off at unsocial tangents, a force that made for social security and human solidarity, for the working together of the human family. Men died for that approval, sacrificed for that approval, lived lives they loathed for that approval. For without it man was on his own, an outcast, an animal that had been driven from the pack.It had led to terrible things, of course - to mob psychology, to racial persecution, to mass atrocities in the name of patriotism or religion. But likewise it had been the sizing that held the race together, the thing that from the very start had made human society possible. And Joe didn't have it. Joe didn't give a damn. He didn't care what anyone thought of him. He didn't care whether anyone approved or not." ~ Clifford D. Simak
9. "Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep." ~ Clifford D. Simak
10. "It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came.""I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood."Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it." ~ Clifford D. Simak
11. "That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself." ~ Clifford D. Simak
12. "Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome." ~ Clifford D. Simak
13. "In this room, he told himself, history might have been written, the course of cosmic empire might have been shaped and the fate of stars decided.But now there was no sign of life, just a brooding silence that seemed to whisper in a tongueless language of days and faces and problems long since wiped out by the march of years." ~ Clifford D. Simak
14. "Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe." ~ Clifford D. Simak
15. "You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding." ~ Clifford D. Simak
16. "We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it." ~ Clifford D. Simak
17. "If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology." ~ Clifford D. Simak
18. "My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over." ~ Clifford D. Simak
19. "And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe." ~ Clifford D. Simak
20. "These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north." ~ Clifford D. Simak
21. "Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists." ~ Clifford D. Simak
22. "Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning." ~ Clifford D. Simak
23. "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?" ~ Clifford D. Simak
24. "If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet." ~ Clifford D. Simak
25. "It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose." ~ Clifford D. Simak
26. "It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space." ~ Clifford D. Simak

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For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool."
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