In article <fvsug5$dki$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Anthony Nance
writes:
>Anthony Nance <nance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Michael Stemper <mstemper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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."
>> I'll check later if no one has verified, but I think this comes
>> from _Trader to the Stars_ .
>
>Found it -
>"...Politics, they come and go, but greed goes on forever."
>Nicholas van Rijn speaking to Joyce, the last page or two of
>the "Territory" segment (the middle story of the three) of
>_Trader to the Stars_ .
Yup, now I remember it. Thanks!
(At the moment, I feel like the Society for Rational Investigation at
the very end of _Fire_. My news server has again gone comatose. Your
post is the last one showing in rasw, a day later.)
--
Michael F. Stemper
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