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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Concept Even Exists Great Know More Mystery Still Than Time Us

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We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Along Another Another Day Day Fact Gone Had Hour Just Matter Minute Moved Never Said Same Second Time

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What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Alone Attitude Believing Christian Enough Faith Finding He Man Mark Mean More Out Philosophic Proof Satisfied Should Something Than True Truth Truth Is Way Which You

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When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Am Earth Exist Human Human Life Life Must Only Other Planets Purpose Talk Thinking Throughout Universe Which I Am

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And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Bracket Each Either Except Extending Future Infinite Itself Medium Never-Ending No Future Number Past Phase Single Stretched Time Universe Way

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If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Ancestry Available Back Being Came Could First Material Means Mine Our Planet Trace Were Yours

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Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

~Clifford D. Simak

Topics: Before Earth Escaping Fatal Final Greatest He Himself Hour Knowing Lay Less Man Not Knowing Planet Present Snare Than Trap Traps

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 3rd, 1904

Died: April 25th, 1988

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