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• Man makes history, he makes himself. -- Vere Gordon Childe.
• Will the information superhighway have any rest stops?
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• So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Pericle...
• Any ordinarily easy task can be rendered far more difficult with research.
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• The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain. -- G. Fitch
• The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch
• Sometimes it was difficult to remember that the individuals within an alien species could differ as thoroughly as humans did.
  -- "The Ringworld Enginee...