So, One Of The Things I Was Doing With The Aliens In The Quiet Invasion Was Creating That Advanced Society Which Had Ideas About Morality And Proper Use Of Natural Resources That Were Radically Different From Ours, As The Europeans Were From The American Indians. - SearchQuotes

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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.

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