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• Earth history, remember? Like the passenger pigeon or the buffalo .
  .. once there were millions of them; prairies black with them....
• A mad puppeteer, a full grown kzin, and me. Our fourth crew member had better be a psychiatrist.
  -- Louis Wu "Ringworld...
• Kawaresksenjajok, Harkabeeparolyn, shall we check out some legends for ourselves?
  And maybe make a few. -- Louis Wu "The Ringworld Enginee...
• My God! It's full of stars!
• I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets.
  Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -- one Earth orbit -- around the sun....
• Making a Bussard ramjet was no task for primitives. -- "The Ringworld Enginee
• Monkey curiosity was not powerful in most sentient species. -- "Ringworld
• MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
  As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice....
• Quimby: Now, here's what we think the impact might look like.
  Show them, Jerry. [first slide shows arrows pointing to "Springfield" and the "Comet"] [second slide shows collision of two and an arrow pointing to "Moe's"] Moe...