The essence of the discipline is, first, self-awareness, and then, self control. By the time a human is able to destroy this planet by this method—instead of by clumsy things like cobalt bombs—it is not possible, I grok fully, for him to entertain the volition.
 Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961). copy citation

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Author Robert A. Heinlein
Source Stranger in a Strange Land
Topic discipline planet
Date 1961
Language English
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