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But we,—we, our little Foundation, our single world almost without metallic resources,—have had to work with brute economy. Our generators have had to be the size of our thumb, because it was all the metal we could afford. We had to develop new techniques and new methods,—techniques and methods the Empire can't follow because they have degenerated past the stage where they can make any vital scientific advance. |
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. —Marcus Aurelius
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Kohr-Ah: We evolved on a hostile world, the descendants of solitary hunters. — Star Control II
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The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. They've calculated everything in planets, in stellar systems, in whole sectors of the Galaxy. Their generators are gigantic because they thought in gigantic fashion. —Mallow, Foundation
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