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“Never look for complexity in diplomatic decisions. With very few exceptions, actions always devolve—and that’s the exact term—from someone’s self-interest. Not the national self-interest, by the way. We are talking here about individual careers.”

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Source: Infinity Beach (2000), Chapter 15 (p. 218)

“Truth is like nudity: It is on occasion indispensable, but it is dangerous and should not be displayed openly. It is truth that gives life its grandeur, but the polite fictions that make it bearable.”

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Source: Infinity Beach (2000), Chapter 8 (p. 110)

“Starships, of course, have few limitations with regard to design, the prime specification being simply that they not disintegrate during acceleration or course change.”

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Source: Infinity Beach (2000), Chapter 7 (p. 100)

“The belief that society was in decline was a permanent characteristic of every era. People always believed they lived in a crumbling world. They themselves were of course okay, but everyone around them was headed downhill.”

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Source: Infinity Beach (2000), Chapter 6 (p. 84)

“Those who rise to the top of organizations, who live to direct others, to wield power, are inevitably afflicted by weak egos, by a need to prove themselves. This explains why they are so easily frightened and so easily manipulated. And why they are so dangerous.”

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Source: Infinity Beach (2000), Chapter 5 (p. 65)