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Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest–that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.
– Neal Shusterman

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