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Of course we can establish constitutional checks and balances, but those won’t mean a thing unless citizens make sure the safeguards are taken seriously. The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

— David Brin The Postman (1985)

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“Where there is mind, there is always solution,” Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

Startide Rising (1983)

One more piece for the Great Jigsaw puzzle.

Knowledge isn’t restrained by the limits of Malthus. Information doesn’t need topsoil to grow in, only freedom. Given eager minds and experimentation, it feeds itself like a chain reaction.

Earth (1990)

Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.

Earth (1990)

The variety of inventive ideas—and ideologies—that people can come up with never ceases to amaze me, especially when they’re stoked by the ultimate drug, self-righteousness.

Kiln People (2002)

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