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Iain Banks

“The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.”

Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail
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Surface Detail (Culture, #9) Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
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