Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Alastair Reynolds
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  4. History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

  5. Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the...

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