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• Their [the Klingon's] empire is made up of conquered worlds.
  They take what they want by arms and force. -- Kirk, "Friday's Child," stardate 3497.2....
• Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. -- Rule of Defactualizatio
• Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
• A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 4...
• Use the Force, Luke. Feel it flow through your fingertips ...
• One of these centuries the brutes, private or public, who believe that they can rule their betters by force, will learn the lesson of what happens when brute force encounters mind and force.
  -- Ragnar Danneskjold...