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• The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. -- Russell Bake
• The Ultimate Wisdom Philosophers must ultimately find their true perfection in knowing all the follies of mankind by introspection.
  -- Piet Hei...
• Biography: One of the terrors of death.
• Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825, p....
• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today-but the core of science fiction, its essence .
  . . has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. -- Issac Asimov...
• Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde