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“You are an important man–”
Ralston snorted.
“You do not consider that to be so?” asked Blaustein.
“No, I don’t. There are no important men, any more than there are important individual bacteria.”
“I don’t understand.”
“I don’t expect you to.”

— Isaac Asimov The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990)

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