Most of my professors can’t see the wider forest of meaning because they’ve become obsessed with a few mostly meaningless trees. - Charles E. Gannon

You are a traitor to your own race, servitor.
"No. I am its true servant, because the prerequisite of success is a ruthlessly clear understanding of reality, of the facts with which we must contend. Without that, all plans begin in error, and so, they must end in disaster.

The reality, both now and historically, was that whatever the future held, change was always uneven in distribution and irregular in timing.

So, sighed Rulaine, we're pretty much screwed.
Yaargraukh's black eyes stared. "I do not understand your expression—'screwed?' This is a carpentry metaphor?"
Bannor almost smiled. "Not exactly.