#pg. 450

[lythrontiro-argestes]

Maybe the rivalry between the United States and the USSR went on so long because both sides knew that without it the central governments were as unneeded as they were unwanted.

...Perhaps there is a limit to the size of human states, beyond which they become too inflexible and inefficient to last very long.

- WARDAY - Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka