“A lot of people have made political careers out of religious piety and the fear of foreigners, but that won’t last. Not enough foreigners or miracles to sustain the crisis.”

—  Robert Charles Wilson , book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 7 (p. 77)

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