If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history! - Terry Brooks

You think that Man can start again, do you, Shea? Well you might be quite surprised to learn that some things never change, and that the dangers of power are always present, even to a race that almost obliterated itself.

The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.