“Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.”

—  Frederik Pohl, book The Space Merchants

Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 8 (p. 105)

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American science fiction writer and editor 1919–2013

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