“Cold calculated awareness that their power lay in keeping the people in ignorance.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein , book Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy (p. 333)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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