“It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.”

— Isaac Asimov , book Pebble in the Sky

Pebble in the Sky, chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
Pebble in the Sky (1950)

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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