Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome. (Robert A. Heinlein)

Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome.

Robert A. Heinlein

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