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Charles Sheffield byl britský vědec, americký sci-fi spisovatel.

✵ 25. červen 1935 – 2. listopad 2002

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“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Between the Strokes of Night

Zdroj: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 29 (p. 342)

“A long time ago humans talked of terraforming Mars and Venus, but we never did it. Just too busy blowing ourselves up, I guess, ever to get round to it.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Between the Strokes of Night

Zdroj: Between the Strokes of Night (1985), Chapter 28 (p. 322)

“It sounds reasonable to me. Reasonable, but not true. Big difference.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Proteus In The Underworld

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 19 (p. 251)

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Proteus In The Underworld

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)

“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Proteus In The Underworld

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)

“When you got right down to it, every important decision in life was made with inadequate information.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Proteus In The Underworld

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 14 (p. 190)

“When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Proteus In The Underworld

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 11 (pp. 148-149)

“To a political mind, everything is politics.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Proteus In The Underworld

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 3 (p. 23)

“You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day.”

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Charles Sheffield kniha Proteus In The Underworld

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 11)

“War was senseless. And yet war came creeping steadily closer.”

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Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus Unbound (1989), Chapter 14 (p. 330)

“It’s the usual sensation mongering; the news services will say anything for an effect.”

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Charles Sheffield

Zdroj: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Sight of Proteus (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 73)

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