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You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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cbd1975
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HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?" "I'd be dead if it wasn't." "Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.
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internet-humor
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Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Perfection," Inigo said, "is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Always demand proof of nirvana before you start following messiahs who're selling it to you. Those guys don't exactly have the greatest track record in the universe.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does." "No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?" "No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue"."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.' Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. 'Thanks, Dad. That's helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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3d5b1ba
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Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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13427af
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What's a lightwave ship?" "UFO, basically." "Cool," Angela said."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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445a54b
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Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
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recycling
society
waste
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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77ccc24
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The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
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stubbornness
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Computers aren't smart, just fast. Garbage in, garbage out.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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I doubt any system that won't reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them, they become a politician.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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I grew up on a farm," Ayanna protested. "We worked the land." She pulled a face. "Well, I helped Dad program the agribots."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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If you want to understand how a government works, the laws tell you.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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He had used drugs and nanonic supplements to compensate at first, then supplements became replacements, with bones exchanged for carbon-fibre struts. Electrical consumption supplanted food intake. The final transition was his skin, replacing the eczema-ridden epidermis with a smooth ochre silicon membrane. Warlow didn't need a spacesuit to work in the vacuum, he could survive for over three weeks without a power and oxygen recharge. His fac..
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Taxis are useful in this town, aren't they?" Clayton mused. "So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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ee84618
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Pick a gender and stick with it, guys.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness?
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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4e44d83
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Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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d141939
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Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.
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Peter F. Hamilton |