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Laura Brandt knew all about coming out of a suspension chamber.

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

He said that for wickedness to succeed all it takes is for decent people to do nothing.

What's a lightwave ship?"
"UFO, basically."
"Cool," Angela said.

Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them, they become a politician.

[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.

We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.

I grew up on a farm," Ayanna protested. "We worked the land." She pulled a face. "Well, I helped Dad program the agribots.

That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.

Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.

Ian kept his brain in his dick,

I doubt any system that won't reveal its purpose, that only offers promises of a better tomorrow.

Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.

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.

Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.

So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can't be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.

True life is the understanding and support of other people, of selflessness, of charity, of kindness.

Humans can do anything if they have enough determination. And knowledge. Knowledge is the key to everything.

Always trust in proven survivors.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.

Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.

Their electronics are still back in the Stone Age.

Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.

Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire,

Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

Consciousness is just a window into time.

Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed.

Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.

Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.

Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for

Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.

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.

Computers aren't smart, just fast. Garbage in, garbage out.

Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa's arena.

Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily.

You cannot fight entropy.

How they hell does it do that?

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

Bollocks! Bollocks, bollocks.

Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.

It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.

Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.

babies are God's way of persuading parents to have teenagers.

Memories do not hurt, they only influence.

Taxis are useful in this town, aren't they?" Clayton mused. "So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same.

That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty.

rationalize that as something else

It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness?

The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

Weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.

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.

She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.

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.

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.

We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic.

Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed.

It's not a god he worships, it's the devil.

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.