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• You're from the planet Earth. There is no persecution on your planet.
  There was persecution on Earth once; I remember reading about it in my history class....
• Quote #213 "Chaos is but unperceived order." -- attributed to Fred Hoyle
• We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb
  or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation....
• A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space.
  On the back it said, "Wish you were here." -- Steven Wrigh...
• Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
  -- Fred Hoyle...
• There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle
• empire n. Any of a family of military simulations derived from a game written by Peter Langston many years ago.
  A number of multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication exist, and one single-player version implemented for both Unix and VMS...
• The chief benefit of the study of history is to break down the illusion that people in one period of time are significantly different from people who lived at any other time in history.
• If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard, let him worry about cutting it. -- Fred Alle