“One can’t expect logic from males; they think with their testicles and act from their emotions.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXIX : Random Numbers, p. 385

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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