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'Were they truly intelligent? By themselves, that is? I don't know, and I don't know how we can find out. [...
'If they were not truly intelligent, I hope I never live to see us tangle with anything at al like them, which is intelligent. I know who will lose. Me. You. The so-called human race.'
--The Puppet Masters, by Robert A. Heinlein.
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