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By Robert Heinlein
To believe that you can live free of your cultural matrix is one of the easiest fallacies to fall into, and has some of the worst consequences.
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- Beyond This Horizon, Part Two (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1942), May 1942 · Internet Archive scan page 89
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Spoken by the character Claude Mordan in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Beyond This Horizon, first printed in Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Anson MacDonald (Part Two, May 1942). Mordan is advising the younger Hamilton Felix, who wants to break the customs of his society.