Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

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

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• “You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.”

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• “Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.”

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• “How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel?
  We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.”

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• “How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.”

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

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• “She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.”

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• “Perfection,” Inigo said, “is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist.”

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• “HR?'
  'Human Resources.'
  'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.”

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• “Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?"
  "I'd be dead if it wasn't."
  "Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.”

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• “This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.'
  'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.”

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

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

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• “Always demand proof of nirvana before you start following messiahs who’re selling it to you. Those guys don’t exactly have the greatest track record in the universe.”

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

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• “I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.”

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• “Random Acts of Kindness," he said. "You need some in your life. Everybody does."
  "No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough money.”

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

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

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

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• “Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb.”

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• “He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.”

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• “The hostile force! The reasone the barrier was established. "Astrophysics, do we know what's causing that?"
  
  "No, sir," Bruno said cheerfully. "Not a clue".”

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• “The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.”

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• “...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.”

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