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He's an honest politician--he stays bought.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
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I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
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The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.
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A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
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My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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