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"Death serves as a poignant reminder of our own limitations and frailties—and of the bond with our ancestors who, in a way, died that we might live," (152).

"It will be enough if a few salient and generic characteristics of life on yet another obscure planet are noted for the cavernous recesses of the galactic archives," (139).

"In human history there are a precious few whose memory we revere because they knowingly sacrificed themselves for others. For each of them, there are multitudes who did nothing," (118).