Terry Pratchett quote: Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own ...

Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?

~ Terry Pratchett ~

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