“Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book Space Cadet

Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 10 “Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?”, p. 126

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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