“All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book Friday

Source: Friday (1983), Ch. XXI, p. 214

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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