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In the distant future humankind, aided by hyperspace drive capability and advanced robots, has successfully settled other planets. But in a kind of reverse colonialism, the inhabitants of the new planets, called Spacers, regard the residents of earth
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“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
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“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.”
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“It is a capital mistake to develop a premature hypothesis in the absence of hard data. I am trying my best NOT to develop a theory.”
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“Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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