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• I have often been asked: if we have traveled between the stars, why can we not launch the simplest of orbital probes?
  These fools fail to understand the difficulty of finding the appropriate materials on this Planet, of developing adequate power supplies, and creating the infrastructure necessary to support such an effort....
• Man has killed man from the beginning of time, and each new frontier has brought new ways and new places to die.
  Why should the future be different? -- Col....
• Industrial Grade Nano-Paste, Planet's most valuable commodity, can also be one of its most dangerous.
  Simply pour out several canisters, slide in a programming transponder, and step well away while the stuff cooks....
• Proper care and education for our children remains a cornerstone of our entire colonization effort.
  Children not only shape our future; they determine in many ways our present....
• Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely.
  Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth....
• I believe Planet will talk to us if we are willing to listen.
  These fungal stalks behave as multistate relays: taken together, the neural net connectivity must be staggering....
• A ship at sea is its own world. To be the captain of a ship is to be the unquestioned ruler of that world and requires all of the leadership skills of a prince or minister.
  -- Col. Corazon Santiago, "Leadership and the Sea...
• The weather is the part of this planet's career that we can notice in our back yards.
• You're not the <only> one who can abuse a non-profit organization!
  -- Homer, "Brother from the Same Plane...