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"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
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"She didn't want to be the savior of humanity. She never had. She didn't want to be the vanguard-of destruction or salvation. What she had really wanted was to be a girl whose father lived to show her the stars.Instead she had been left to wander them alone. Until she discovered someone who saw the stars as she did."
"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."
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