“Unfortunately, it appeared that she was going to be around when they learned the hard way that interstellar wars of aggression were much easier to lose than to win.”

—  Charles Stross , book Singularity Sky

Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 8, “Confessions” (p. 188)

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