“These were not religious fanatics, I saw, not mindless servants or self-punishing ascetics, but were, instead, row upon row of intelligent, questioning, alert young men and women.”

— Dan Simmons, book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 21 (p. 454)

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