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“We’re just too nosy, Commander,” he went on. “Most humans have their patience level set a little too low, and their curiosity a bit too high.”

— 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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The mills of bureaucracy may or may not grind fine, but they certainly grind exceeding slow.

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The laws of probability not only permit coincidences; they absolutely insist on them.

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Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.

Convergence (1997)

Intelligence is too subtle an attribute to be inferred from appearance.

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