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General Chang
A high-ranking officer in the United States, Colonel Stanton works alongside General Chang to try and fight back against the impending Trisolaran invasion. Stanton has lived through many important historical events, but this new threat completely shifts his perspective, as he tells Wang Miao that “it all seems so insignificant now.”
Colonel Stanton Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Colonel Stanton or refer to Colonel Stanton . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 31
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The second time I came to Panama was in 1999, to attend the ceremony for the handover of the canal to Panama. Oddly, by the time we got to the Authority’s building, the Stars and Stripes were already gone. Supposedly the US government had requested that the flag be lowered a day early to avoid the embarrassment of lowering the flag in front of a crowd…Back then, I thought I was witnessing history. But now that seems so insignificant.
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Colonel Stanton Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Colonel Stanton or refer to Colonel Stanton . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 31
Quotes
The second time I came to Panama was in 1999, to attend the ceremony for the handover of the canal to Panama. Oddly, by the time we got to the Authority’s building, the Stars and Stripes were already gone. Supposedly the US government had requested that the flag be lowered a day early to avoid the embarrassment of lowering the flag in front of a crowd…Back then, I thought I was witnessing history. But now that seems so insignificant.
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