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1 " In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy. "
― Arthur C. Clarke , Rama II (Rama, #2)
2 " It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity. "
― Gentry Lee , Rama II (Rama, #2)
3 " Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion. "
4 " Could we go into your room?" she asked. "I knew it. I knew it," he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. "It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is going to declare her undying affection "
5 " All bureaucracies are the same. They drain the life out of the truly creative people and develop mindless paper-pushers as their critical mass. "
6 " Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. "
7 " if it really was brilliant I’d have thought of it already. "
8 " The fax machine now allows us to exchange ideas almost in real time; it’s far more convenient than the Electronic Mail "
9 " Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were threatened. I'm the tiebreaker. "
10 " life was not a joyride at an amusement park. It was a deadly serious affair and only through a combination of solid values, self-control, and a steady commitment to a worthwhile goal was there a chance to achieve happiness. "
11 " Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality. "
12 " Dr. Brown considered all engineers to be nothing more than glorified carpenters and plumbers. "
13 " forty-one was a “very special number, the initial integer in the longest continuous string of quadratic primes. "
14 " What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity. "
15 " Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it? "
16 " Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. "
17 " dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one. "
18 " She was certain that it was wise to prevent Wilson and Brown from working closely together during sorties inside Rama. Nicole chastised herself for not having raised the issue with Borzov on her own. She realized that her mission portfolio included mental health as well, but somehow she had difficulty thinking of herself as the crew psychiatrist. I avoid it because it’s not an objective process, she thought. We have no sensors yet to measure good or bad mental health. "
19 " Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate. The rest of us must live forever with everything we have ever been. "
20 " Summer 2161: Brown, eleven, enrolled in Camp Longhorn by father over strenuous objections of mother. Typical outdoor summer camp in hill country of Texas "
