“All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.”

—  Isaac Asimov , book I, Robot

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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