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• Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves, but to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.
  -- Carl Saga...
• What we Are is God's give to us. What we Become is our gift to God.
• For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner [.
  ..] on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies....
• As long as there have been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos.
  Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe....
• God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....
• Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.