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Never try to outstubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
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Naval Officer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
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The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
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