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“I hated the people offering stupid prayers to a creature that wouldn't even notice when it stepped on them. Do you think ants pray to terrans? Do you think they worship the boot that squashes them? No. They're smarter than that, than us. Ants know the inexorable truth of the situation: big thing from sky means danger, get the fuck out of the way.”

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Book:Sins of the Mother
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