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• He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

  Vernor Vinge

  Gun, Mind, Thunder

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.373, Macmillan

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• I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

  Vernor Vinge

  Trying

  Vernor Vinge (2017). “The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)”, p.477, Macmillan

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• The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

  Vernor Vinge

  Heart, Manipulation, Touched

  Vernor Vinge (2017). “The Zones of Thought Series: (A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky)”, p.448, Macmillan

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• All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

  Vernor Vinge

  Jobs, Revenge, Law

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.428, Macmillan

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• The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

  Vernor Vinge

  Running, Self, Illusion

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.255, Macmillan

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• Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

  Vernor Vinge

  Pain, Deception, Levers

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

  Vernor Vinge

  Two, Evil, Broken

  Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”

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