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Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.

— Robert Silverberg Thomas the Proclaimer (1972)

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Source: Chapter 6, “The Woman Who Is Sore at Heart Reproaches Thomas” (p. 91)
Work: Thomas the Proclaimer, 1972
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