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“Oh thank God. I can’t imagine explaining “sleep” to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
“Are all Russians crazy?” “Yes,” he said with a smile. “It is the only way to be Russian and happy at the same time.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Who can tell me the radius of Earth?” Trang raised his hand. “Three thousand, nine hundre—” “Trang!” Abby said. “The answer is Trang.” Trang froze in confusion. “What?” I asked. Abby preened. “You asked who could tell you the radius of Earth. Trang can tell you. I answered correctly.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Africa needs infrastructure. To do that, they need power. And they have nine million square kilometers of useless land that gets some of the most intense continuous sunlight on Earth. The Sahara Desert is just sitting there, waiting to give them everything they need. All we needed to do was build the damn power plants!” He flopped back in his chair. “But every local government wanted a piece of the pie. Graft, bribes, payoffs, you name it. You think I embezzled a lot? Shit, that’s nothing compared to what I had to pay in bribes just to build a solar plant in the middle of fucking nowhere.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
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