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• Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant.
  Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse....
• Planet's Primary, Alpha Centauri A, blasts unimaginable quantities of energy into space each instant, and virtually every joule of it is wasted entirely.
  Incomprehensible riches can be ours if we can but stretch our arms wide enough to dip from this eternal river of wealth....
• We estimate that during the next mission century most of Planet's industries will be moved off-planet to Nessus Prime and other orbital facilities.
  Many of our industries will benefit greatly from the low gravity environments available in space, particularly those involving genetically engineered microbes....
• Energy is the currency of the future.
  -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly...
• Life is merely an orderly decay of energy states, and survival requires the continual discovery of new energy to pump into the system.
  He who controls the sources of energy controls the means of survival....
• The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
  -- Felix Frankfurte...
• It is said that Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry---he staked too much upon the more spectacular but less substantial cavalry.
  The present administration in Washington provides a close parallel....
• 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....
• In a bureaucratic system an increase in expenditure will be matched by a fall in production.
  Such systems will act rather like "black holes" in the economic universe, simultaneously sucking in resources and shrinking in terms of "emitted" production....