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• We faced a crisis in our earlier nuclear age. We found the wisdom not to destroy ourselves.
  -- Kirk, "return to Tomorrow," stardate 4768.3...
• We think of ourselves as the most powerful beings in the universe.
  It's unsettling to discover that we're wrong. -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy," stardate 3210.7....
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow.
  But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!! -- Adventures of Asterix...
• Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow.
  But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!! -- Adventures of Asterix....
• Chandler: I am telling you, years from now, schoolchildren will study it as one of the greatest first dates of all time.
  It was unbelievable! We could totally be ourselves, we didn't have to play any games....
• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves?
  Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance....