“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”

—  Isaac Asimov, book The Currents of Space

“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 14 “The Renegade” (p. 141)

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

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