It takes two people to make a human tie. But only one to break it. - Nancy Kress

Cooperation was, in the long run, a more powerful evolutionary strategy than violence, once a species was high-tech.

Judge not. No culture was better than another, no culture should be deemed in need of uplifting. Crap! It was the worst kind of moral laziness masquerading as cultural relativism.

I would spend whole weeks trying to untangle the lush foliage of bribes, kickbacks, nepotism, pride, religion, and mañana that is business in South America.