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"How often were the rise and fall of nations determined not by one ideology's superiority over another-whether it be truth over dreams, or capitalism over communism, or democracy over autocracy- but rather because at the point of decision people would do whatever was required of them so they might see a beloved mother, father, brother, sister, or child again-so they might remain together."

"..she and her Marines had the power-at this specific moment-to alter the course of history. Wisecarver had been right about that. Hunt wondered how much of history, which was so often framed as an ideo- logical contest, was decided by nonideological forces of the sort Barnes described."

"...long ago biological and technological evolution merged? Look at the societies in which we live, riven by divisions, embracing technologies we know don't make us better off, that we know hurt us, and that we embrace nonetheless. Who or what is driving that? The technology has already won. It won a long time ago. We humans lost to it, enslaved ourselves to it, this is all ancient history."

"I would answer that mankind has long existed on the brink of one form of annihilation or another. The work of each generation is to keep the species from destroying itself."