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Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.
Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.
Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
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- Arthur C. Clarke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1917 to 2008; Wikidata Q47087, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47087 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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