“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book The Man Who Sold the Moon

The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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