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    It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: “Is it true in and for itself?”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

    Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
    —J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)

    Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go—and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
    —Wernher Von Braun (1912–1977)