“Doc says the Company set-up is just one big happy family, and the idea that it is a non-profit corporation is the biggest joke since women were invented.”

Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 44

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Robert A. Heinlein557

American science fiction author 1907–1988

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