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“That’s a whole lot of ifs you got there.”
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
“True. But which would you prefer, Louis Nenda?” Atvar H’sial rose from her crouched position. “A substantial set of contingent possibilities, or a single unpleasant certainty?”
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 32, “Escape Clause” (p. 385)
“You crazy? You’ve got me confused with a guy who cares about other people.”
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 30, “Stripping the Ship” (p. 368)
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 246)
“Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.”
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 20, “Tally on Down” (p. 245)
“I do not like to concatenate implausibilities.”
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 188)
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 16, “And Then There Were None” (p. 187)
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 8, “Theories, Theories, Theories” (p. 84)
“When you have something to do, do it. When you have nothing to do, sleep.”
Charles Sheffield
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Resurgence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Resurgence (2002), Chapter 4, “Sleepless in Miranda Port” (p. 33)
“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”
Charles Sheffield
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Convergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)
“When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions.”
Charles Sheffield
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Convergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 23 (p. 488)
“One form of insanity bears the name curiosity.”
Charles Sheffield
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Convergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 18 (p. 433)
Charles Sheffield
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Convergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 13 (p. 381)
“Science wasn’t a show-business talent, conducted in large halls and decided by audience applause.”
Charles Sheffield
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Convergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 321)
Charles Sheffield
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Convergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 6 (p. 317)
“What I found was worse than diversity—it was insanity.”
Charles Sheffield
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Transcendence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 17 (p. 188)
“But no one, no matter how intelligent, could make good inferences from bad data.”
Charles Sheffield
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Transcendence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 126)
“If you win too easy, better ask what’s going on that you don’t know about.”
Charles Sheffield
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Transcendence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 125)
“Old habits did not just die hard. They refused to die at all.”
Charles Sheffield
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Transcendence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Transcendence (1992), Chapter 7, “The Torvil Anfract” (p. 70)
“Don’t confuse caution with cowardice.”
Charles Sheffield
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Divergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Divergence (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 495)
“Impossible gadgets are always the most valuable.”
Charles Sheffield
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Divergence
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Divergence (1991), Chapter 16 (p. 433)
“No purpose is served by making private suffering into a public event.”
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 23 (p. 254)
“Be an optimist! It’s the only way to live.”
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 151)
“That’s what logic says. But I say, phooey, who wants logic? Not you, and not me. We want results.”
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 13, “Summertide Minus Ten” (p. 150)
“The partners were there; gravity was calling the changes, and the cosmic dance was ready to begin.”
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 11, “Summertide Minus Thirteen” (p. 127)
“Everyone was polite; no one was happy.”
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 11, “Summertide Minus Thirteen” (p. 126)
“Mathematics is universal. But very little else is.”
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 10, “Summertide Minus Eighteen” (p. 119)
“But mere plausibility did not make the statement true.”
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 6, “Summertide Minus Twenty-Nine” (p. 65)
Charles Sheffield
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Summertide
Источник: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 5, “Summertide Minus Thirty” (p. 61)
