可能領域を見極めるには、その境界を越えて不可能領域へ踏み込んで行くしかない。 - アーサー・Ｃ・クラーク (1917 - 2008): 『失われた宇宙の旅 2001』
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C(harles) Clarke (1917-2008): The Lost Worlds of 2001
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![IMAGE: It's now or never. / The sooner the better. / When are you going to do it? If not now, then when? [Now, that's when! / Now is the time!]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/now-or-never-5950569_640trim480-100x75.jpg)
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![IMAGE: Good swimmers are oftenest drowned. [Good swimmers at length are oftenest drowned.] / Even Homer sometimes nods. / No one is wise at all times.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/swimming-pool-830505_640-100x69.jpg)