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• The following appeared in a newsletter from a national astronomy association.
  "Various sources are predicting higher-than-average temperatures across the country next winter, including in Sun City, the traditional location of our yearly winter conference....
• We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean. -- Carl Saga
• Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves, but to the Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we sprang.
  -- Carl Saga...
• 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....
• My deeply held belief is that if a God of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God.
  We would be unappreciative of that gift ... if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves....
• 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....
• Lenny: Aw, if they hire a woman we won't be able to spit on the floor.
  Carl: And we can't take off our pants when it gets real hot....
• We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
  We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology....