Utopia Quote by Rebecca Solnit

““Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia.””

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“If Utopia is not a place, but a people, then we must choose carefully, for the world is about to change, and in our story, Rapture was just the beginning. -Eleanore Lamb”

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