2001: A Space Odyssey

for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.

they had discovered methods of warfare so advanced that they no longer had need of such toys; there had been talk of radio-hypnosis from satellite transmitters, compulsion viruses, and blackmail by synthetic diseases for which they alone possessed the antidote.

The night wore on

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Since the dawn of time

but infinite power.
Without those weapons, often though

If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this.

this is only a work of fiction.
The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.

After ten thousand years, Man had at last found something as exciting as war.
Unfortunately, not all nations had yet realized that fact.