"It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine."

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“Creationists don't want equal time, … they want all the time there is.”

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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