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Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.
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Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.
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Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
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