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• Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left.
  Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective....
• The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity.
  Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds....
• In the years since our arrival, we have foolishly disrupted so many of Planet's ecosystems that entire species may vanish without our ever having understood, or even known them.
  We must halt this plunder, and halt it immediately, for our own survival as a species depends on our ability to strike a balance on this world....
• Scientific theories are judged by the coherence they lend to our natural experience and the simplicity with which they do so.
  The grand principle of the heavens balances on the razor's edge of truth....
• Our ancestors harnessed the power of a sun, and so again shall we.
  -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "The Science of Our Fathe...
• The Mind Worms are the natural defenses of the living Planet--the white blood cells, if you will.
  In a world in which unassimilated thought represents danger, the Mind Worm seeks out concentrations of sentient mental energy and destroys them, ruthlessly and efficiently....
• Fort Wayne is not the headquarters of F troop.
• I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me?
  So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again....
• Until quite recently, spider silk had the highest tensile strength of any substance known to man, and the name Silksteel pays homage to the arachnid for good reason.
  -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Scientific Survey...