Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable me…

Iain Banks
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Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. ✨ Consider Phlebas (The Culture, Book 1). Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 4 Temple of Light, p. 96), 1987.
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Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. ✨ Consider Phlebas (The Culture, Book 1). Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 4 Temple of Light, p. 96), 1987.

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