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As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.
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killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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It is the others you must convince, the ignorant masses, yet paradoxically, they are the ones hardest for you to reach. Theirs are the minds which, thanks to circumstance, have set and hardened against new concepts and ideas from an early age.
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Is Vermillion damaged?' 'No.' He gave her an anxious grin. 'Not exactly. Just lost.' 'Lost?' It was possibly an even more worrying answer. How could you get lost flying to a star cluster that measured twenty thousand lightyears in diameter? It wasn't as if you could lose sight of something of that magnitude. 'That's ridiculous.' 'The captain will explain. Let's get you to the bridge.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Some believe that we will eventually sink back to the more simple-minded creatures which we evolved out of and the planet will bring another mind forward." "Isn't that the opposite of evolution?" "Only from a single-species perspective. A planet's life is paramount. It is such a fragile rare event, it should be treasured and nurtured for the potential it brings forth. If that means abdicating our physical dominance for our successors, then ..
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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code could be written to solve the problems. Code could do anything. Code could save the world.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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rationalize that as something else
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty."
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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he said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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I don't get it. There's nothing here. Send your invasion force halfway across the galaxy so they can build a five star ski resort? That's crazy.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security -- the fields government used to devote its efforts to -- were all slowly being starved of tax money and sold off to private industry. It
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth's atmosphere. They just didn't know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won't propagate. If it does, then the whole universe gets converted into energy.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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The ubiquitous semi-sentient utility routine running in her macrocellular clusters responded immediately by unfolding a basic array of mental icons, slender lines of blue fairy light that superimposed themselves within her wobbly vision. She frowned. If she was reading their efficiency modes correctly, her biononics had
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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war is the result of total irrationality combined with conflict of interest.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn't if they knew what that trip's like.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast - actually accelerating. 'Oh my God,' she gasped. The Raiel's planet-sized DF machines were flying into new positions. 'The Raiel are getting ready for the last fight,' Ehasz said numbly. 'If they lose, that monster will consume the whole galaxy.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Walk the poor bloke past the station doctor, get the certificate signed, lock him up in a padded room, and supply him with good drugs
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She's just another cause fascist, son, and that's the worst kind; they always know they're right. Anyone who dissents for whatever reason is evil and an enemy, existing only to be crushed.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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I knew I'd get stick
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Memories do not hurt, they only influence.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Tochee
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travel
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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It helped that any sexual impulse he might have felt was effectively neutralized by her drinking. After the first hour of any evening, she was not a pleasant person to be around.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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age was a truly cumulative thing, bringing a degree of wisdom to life.
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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purpose; parents being tolerant or exasperated
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Always trust in proven survivors.
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trust
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from the hub, each one a flat lattice of struts twenty-five kilometers long, made from the toughest steelsilicon fibers the Commonwealth knew how to manufacture. Twenty-three kilometers of them were covered by an ultra-thin silvered foil, giving a total surface area of over one thousand eight hundred square kilometers for the solar wind to impact..
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science-fiction
stormrider
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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I don't understand why you need verbal trickery to ensnare a temporary mate," Tochee said. "Are you not attracted to each other by what you are?"
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Peter F. Hamilton |
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Back in the day, surplus harvests or an excess of rare minerals had been quietly shoved out into oblivion, assisting the market price, reaping bigger profits for the financial sectors at the expense of the consumer.
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