Quotes from work
A Time Odyssey


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“All the religiosity around worries me—doesn’t it you?”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 28, “The Ark” (p. 217)

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“Such craziness captured media attention, but was fortunately still rare.”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 27, “The Tin Lid” (p. 207)

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“Democracy is our most important possession. If we throw it away when the going gets tough, we might never get it back.”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 24, “BDO” (p. 182)

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“You know, we’re not used to secrecy up here. It’s not encouraged. We all have to work together to keep alive. Secrecy is corrosive, Professor, bad for morale.”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 9, “Lunar Descent” (p. 53)

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“Maybe it’s a mark of a maturing culture, do you think, that secrets aren’t kept, that truth is told, that things are talked out?”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 49, “Areosynchronous” (p. 313)

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“You do realize how many impossible things have to be true for that to have happened?”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 29, “Alexei” (p. 187)

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“When the pious fools come up against the godless pagans who own Judea, the result is what might be called diplomatic incidents.”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 26, “The Stone Man” (p. 172)

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“Slickness of presentation didn’t imply comprehensiveness of knowledge.”

Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 13, “Fortress Sol” (p. 77)

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