by Roger Bourke White Jr., copyright April 2004
"Just as parasitic disease is an inevitable consequence of the evolution of organized multi-cellular life, I suspect we will find that every civilization carries within its evolution the seeds of its own destruction.
"And in some cases those seeds must succeed in growing and bearing fruit."
Professor Rojero Blanco
University of Fornax
Chair on Extraterrestrial Civilizations, 1991
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