The sheer waste of human potential that was the New Republic's raison d'être offended her sensibilities as badly as a public book-burning, or a massacre of innocents. (Charles Stross)

The sheer waste of human potential that was the New Republic's raison d'être offended her sensibilities as badly as a public book-burning, or a massacre of innocents.

Charles Stross

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