Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
– Isaac Asimov
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- When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
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