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“Why are you fighting it?”
“Because somebody has to.”
“That’s not much of a reason.”
“It’s the best reason there is,” said Santiago. “The first duty of power is to perpetuate itself. The first duty of free men is to resist it.”

— Mike Resnick Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future (1986)

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