Jack McDevitt - The Engines of God (1994)

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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

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Maybe the universe doesn't approve of places like New York.

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Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.

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Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

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He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

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