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1 " His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in this radiant creature. The lullabyes of half a million years throbbed in her throat. Had they no sense of wonder, no reverence, no pride? "
― Mervyn Peake , Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
2 " Why are you all wasting human labour and the world’s wealth in building machinery to commit mass murder – creatures that for half a million years and more have been endowed with reason – conscious beings who discovered a better way long centuries ago? "
― Eden Phillpotts , Saurus (Classics of Science Fiction)
3 " " Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders. "
