“You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.”

"The Gentle Vultures" in Super-Science Fiction (December 1957)
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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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