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• The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. -- Saga
• The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.
• It is well to remember, my son, that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
  -- John Andrew Holme...
• His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 591...
• Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope
  but still bear up and steer Right onward....
• People don't change; they only become more so. -- John Bright-Holme
• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincol
• The most advantageous, pre-eminent thing thou canst do is not to exhibit nor display thyself within the limits of our galaxy
  but rather depart instantaneously whence thou even now standest and flee to yet another rotten planet in the universe, if thou canst have the good fortune to find one....