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#1. even in the face of the devastating Trisolar Crisis, the unity of the human race is still a distant dream. The

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#2. Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.

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#3. Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We're trapped

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#4. And now, the Sun really was melting, its blood seeping into the deadly plane. This was the last sunset. In

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#5. To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.

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#6. Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic. It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality.

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#7. The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape. The

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#8. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

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#9. She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold.

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#10. He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.

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#11. Make time for civilization, for civilization won't make time.

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#12. It's easy to be led to the abyss.

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#13. If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?

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#14. unscientific ways of thinking will dominate scientific thinking among human intellectuals, and lead to the collapse of the entire scientific system of thought.

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#15. He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering.

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#16. The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even though we still do not understand its real purpose. Mountains are universal and we are all standing at the feet of mountains.

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#17. But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun - which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope.

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#18. There were few things that it needed to remember forever, and those were etched by its genes into the storage area known as instinct. Having

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#19. Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places. At

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#20. Life and the world were perhaps ugly, but at the limits of the micro and macro scales, everything was harmonious and beautiful. The

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#21. The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.

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#22. The universe is grand, but life is grander. We're certain to meet again.

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#23. Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.

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#24. As soon as Wang left the Research Center building, the nightmarelike feeling caught up to him. He felt like the starry sky was a magnifying glass that covered the world, and he was a tiny insect below the lens with nowhere to hide.

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#25. Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed to possess the power of gods; but in the end, the real power was wielded by time.

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#26. No,no.Don't say where we are!Once we know where we are,then the world becomes as narrow as a map.When we don't know,the world feels unlimited.

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#27. Let's go drinking and then go back to sleep like good bugs.

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#28. We are comrades now.

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#29. Now you know the goal of this game: to use our intellect and understanding to analyze all phenomena until we can know the pattern of the sun's movement. The survival of civilization depends on it.

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#30. Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one's forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.

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#31. The child that was human civilization had opened the door to her home and glanced outside. The endless night terrified her so much that she shuddered against the expansive and profound darkness, and shut the door firmly.

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#32. Buddy, you're the one who was right!" Da Shi laughed, shaking his head. "I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved!

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#33. In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.

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#34. As the four girls were taking her father's life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went.

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#35. Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

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#36. One thing in particular that struck him was the total absence of landscapes, the mark of a mature aesthetic sensibility: hanging landscape paintings in a house situated in the Garden of Eden would be as pointless as pouring a bucket of water into the ocean.

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#37. Even a fish can be used to commit a crime. I handled a murder case once. Some bitch cut off her husband's family jewels. You know what she used? A frozen tilapia she got out of the freezer! The spines along the back were like razors -

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#38. In her life, moments of happiness were only gaps between mass catastrophes. She was now afraid of happiness.

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#39. Existence is the premise for everything else.

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#40. From the depths of his memory arose a tingling sadness, fragile and pure like morning dew, tinged with a rosy hue.

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#41. Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish.

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#42. I'm a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.

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#43. In the eternal night of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, two civilization had swept through like two shooting stars, and the universe had remembered their light.

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#44. As soon as we increase the dimensionality of this proton, it will become very small.

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#45. Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

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#46. The key is to set up some rules: which combinations of motion vectors are "healthy" and "beneficial," and which combinations are "detrimental" and "harmful." The former receive a survival advantage while the latter are disfavored.

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#47. Time is the one thing that can't be stopped. Like a sharp blade, it silently cuts through hard and soft, constantly advancing. Nothing is capable of jolting it even the slightest bit, but it changes everything.

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#48. In this world, can everyone be dehydrated and rehydrated?

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#49. Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin.

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#50. Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.

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#51. Luckily, the forest was so dense that the two escaped without injury, though one of the men peed in his pants.

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#52. The universe is a hollow sphere floating in the middle of a sea of fire. There are numerous tiny holes in the surface of the sphere, as well as a large one. The light from the sea of flames shines through these holes. The tiny ones are stars, and the large one is the sun.

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#53. We're going to advance! Advance! We'll stop at nothing to advance!

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#54. In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

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#55. Earth's suitability for human life was no coincidence, much less an effect of the anthropic principle, but rather was an outcome of the long-term interaction between the biosphere and the natural environment,

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#56. Once the slogans died down, the girl shouted, "God does not exist. All religions are tools concocted by the ruling class to paralyze the spirit of the people!

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#57. Evans: We don't know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity.

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#58. This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.

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#59. No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.

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#60. Hide yourself well; cleanse well.

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#61. It was dark by the time Ye got off work on the eve of Chinese New Year, 1980.

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#62. Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever farther into the distance. It is a drive completely divorced from the demands of survival.

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#63. Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.

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#64. Earth civilization had a way to transmit at the level of a Kardashev Type II civilization.

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#65. When it was finally quiet again, she was no longer capable of making any sound. She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her for the rest of her life.

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#66. there was little significance in their conversation, just father and son taking a verbal stroll together. The

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#67. I need a dual-vector foil for cleansing.

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#68. Whatever they were dealing with was too important for them to care about keeping up appearances.

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#69. The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.

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#70. The false alarm was the result of the explosive amplifying effects of a hyper-information society when fed sensitive news.

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#71. The fish responsible for drying the sea are not here.

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#72. The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves.

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#73. Like those proverbial bookish men who could not even tell types of grains apart, they do not labor with their hands, and know nothing practical. They

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#74. During research conducted with the neuroscientist Keiko Yamasuki, he discovered that brain activity for thoughts and memories operated on the quantum level rather than on the molecular level as previously believed.

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#75. This is utter crap!It's enough to put up big-character posters everywhere on the ground, but we should not send them into space.

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#76. when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.

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#77. Inequality of survival is the worst sort of inequality, and the people and countries left behind will never just sit and wait for death while others have a way out. There

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#78. Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.

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#79. I want to tell all those who believe in God that I am not the Chosen One. I also want to tell all the atheists that I am not a history-maker. I am but an ordinary person. Unfortunately, I have not been able to walk the ordinary person's path. My path is, in reality, the journey of a civilization.

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#80. It's a wonder to be alive. If you don't understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?

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#81. I've got to learn how to live. If I can't swing that, it'll be a damn shame," Luo

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#82. When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.

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#83. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

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#84. Though the person could not see the potential lover's face or figure, the knowledge that the other person existed somewhere in the distance created lovely fantasies about the potential lover that spread like wildfire.

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#85. A bottomless abyss exists in every inch

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#86. The creation myths of the various peoples and religions of the world pale when compared to the glory of the big bang.

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#87. Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.

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#88. Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years.

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#89. It's easy to make ideological mistakes in theory.

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#90. Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?

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#91. That's right. Five minutes into the all-hands meeting, the fundamental values of this totalitarian society had received the support of the vast majority of the crew. So, let me tell you, when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism. Boris

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#92. If so, I'll just hold the umbrella up for you forever.

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#93. Even if God were here, it wouldn't do any good. The entire human race has reached the point where no one is listening to their prayers.

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#94. strongly against nuclear weapons. She knew this was a power that should belong only to the stars.

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#95. By the time you're my age, you'll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.

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#96. It's very interesting: The inside heats up first while the outside remains cold.

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#97. The more transparent something was, the more mysterious it seemed. The universe itself was transparent; as long as you were sufficiently sharp-eyed, you could see as far as you liked. But the farther you looked, the more mysterious it became.

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#98. It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.

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#99. the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her for the rest of her life. After

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#100. But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities. These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no choice but to endure cruel attacks from every side.

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