Isn't it typical? We train one man-one ordinary, inoffensive, retiring little man-to be an efficient killing machine and he kills the one person who stood a chance of saving us from ourselves! (John Brunner)

Isn't it typical? We train one man-one ordinary, inoffensive, retiring little man-to be an efficient killing machine and he kills the one person who stood a chance of saving us from ourselves!

John Brunner

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