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It might be an impossible task, but at least it was a well-defined one. The rules for performance were no problem. He had learned them long ago on Teufel: you succeed, or you die trying. Until you succeed, you never relax. Until you die, you never give up.

— Charles Sheffield Summertide (1990)

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It is very clear that nothing in nature presents such a danger to the human race is our own actions.

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