Re: The motto of the Qeng Ho

In article <c5n324da0g43kgg5cfoj6o7trv4nssl4t4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bill Snyder
writes:
>On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:40:03 -0500, mstemper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Michael
Stemper) wrote:

>>Vinge credits Poul Anderson as the source for the motto of the Qeng
>>Ho. The motto seems to be, "Politcs may come and go, but Greed goes
>>on forever." This could have been the motto of Nicholas van Rijn, or
>>of the Polesotechnic League,

>IIRC, Solar Spice & Liquors's motto was the venerable "All the
>traffic will bear."

That motto, I do recall. Quite clearly. (From Anderson. I didn't encounter
it in _A Fire Upon the Deep_.)

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
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