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• As distances vanish and the people can flow freely from place to place, society will cross a psychological specific heat boundary and enter a new state.
  No longer a solid or liquid, we have become as a vapor and will expand to fill all available space....
• Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind.
  -- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Disse...
• Go through, my children! The time of miracles is upon us.
  Let us cast off sin and walk together to the Garden of the Lord....
• Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior.
  But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought....
• The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless.
  -- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Collected Sermo...
• Already we have turned all of our critical industries, all of our material resources, over to these .
  . . things . . . these lumps of silver and paste we call nanorobots....
• And when at last it is time for the transition from megacorporation to planetary governme
  from entrepreneur to emperor, it is then that the true genius of our strategy shall become apparent, for energy is the lifeblood of this society and when the chips are down he who controls the energy supply controls Planet....
• And so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void EXISTS, just as surely as you or I.
  Is nothingness any less a miracle than substance?...
• Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network node
  our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly....